![]() ![]() ![]() In many ways – not least the questions of political and social responsibility it poses, especially in the face of global catastrophe – it is a darker work, and yet a more fruitfully puzzling, multifaceted one. ![]() Where the suffering and hopelessness of A Little Life created an overwhelming experience that left readers divided around the issue of how much they could take, this is a far subtler delineation of those who feel hamstrung, beleaguered, inadequate to the task ahead. The novel’s title invokes a feeling of expectant adventuring, of happiness waiting somewhere what, perhaps, nation-builders might feel just as strongly as individuals at the beginning of their lives. In some ways, this is a work whose fascination with entropy – the breakdown of societies, of property, of the body – makes its job almost impossibly hard we feel as though we are standing in the centre of ever-decreasing circles. each section conjures a vivid, often startlingly reconfigured America. There are few surface resemblances between A Little Life, Yanagihara’s Booker-shortlisted second novel, and To Paradise, but in both she is deeply, compulsively interested in characters for whom the world seems unattainable, whose histories and temperaments coalesce to render them marginal, held back. intricately assembled themes and intensely anxious preoccupations. ![]()
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![]() There was acceptance, and much rejoicing, and some revising, and then off on submission we went, and then one day a magical email with the magical word OFFER floated into my inbox, and then I drank lots of celebratory margaritas. And then lots of agents started saying really nice things to me, and several of them even used the words “I’d like to offer you representation.” One of the users of those words was Sara Megibow of Nelson Literary. Agents started saying really nice things to me, but ultimately still said no. Hey, you’re getting published! How’d that happen? ![]() ![]() ![]() We have a lot of fantastic authors here on OneFour Kidlit, and we’re excited to introduce them to you! Today we’re talking to Stefanie Gaither, author of FALLS THE SHADOW, coming from Simon and Schuster Books For Young Readers in 2014. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The thing is, Corinne’s also been introduced to a really great guy outside the app’s influence. Have we met ISBN: 1542029856 ISBN: 9781542029858 Physical Description: print 256 pages 21 cm Publisher: Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, 2021 Subject. ![]() One of them, Met says, is her soul mate…Ĭorinne doesn’t believe the app for a second, but when she very quickly finds herself with back-to-back blasts from the past, she’ll have to consider if maybe she’s wrong about it. She has moved back to Chicago, is considering her next career move (or temp job), and has absolutely no time to look for love–until a mysterious dating app called Met suddenly appears on her phone, and with it, an invitation for Corinne to reconnect with four missed connections from her past. What if you already met the soul mate you were destined to be with? And you didn’t even know it?Īfter losing her best friend to cancer, Corinne’s life is in flux. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. ![]() "In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Plantįounders and original residents of Africatown Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-171).įoreword : Those who love us never leave us alone with our grief: reading Barracoon: the story of the last "black cargo" / by Alice WalkerĪppendix : Takkoi or Attako: children's game Stories Kossula told me The monkey and the camel Story of de Jonah Now disa Abraham fadda de faitful The lion womanĪfterword and additional materials / edited by Deborah G. URL - (WorldCat Link) Other contributors Plant, Deborah G., 1956- editor. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. Titleīarracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" / Zora Neale Hurston edited by Deborah G. Request This Author Hurston, Zora Neale, author. ![]() |