Alecia McKenzie

Broschiertes Buch

A Million Aunties

An emotional, feel-good novel about friendship, community and family

Beschreibung

An emotional, tender and funny novel from award-winning author Alecia McKenzie that asks, what does family mean to you? Seeking solitude after a personal tragedy upends his world, artist Chris travels to his mother's homeland, Jamaica, in a bid to find peace. He expects to spend his time painting in solitude, coming to terms with his loss and the fractured relationship with his father. Instead, he discovers a new extended and complicated 'family' with their own startling stories. Can they help him to become whole again? Told from different points of view, A Million Aunties is a compelling and deeply relatable novel about friendship, community, chosen family and healing after trauma. 'Have you ever not wanted a book to end? Were disappointed that the characters are gone from your life?... Makes you yearn for more.' New York Journal of Books 'Emotional, enthralling and heartfelt... A story of loss and the infinite types of love." Woman's World 'Tender... An emotionally resonant ode to adopted families and community resilience.' New York Times 'Pulls you in and holds you right till the end. It's strongly written with a delicate touch.' New West Indian Guide 'This big-hearted narrative of love, loss and family is handled with grace and beauty.' Publishers Weekly 'A beautiful book for anyone who knows there is more to family than blood relations.' Book Culture

Autor

Alecia McKenzie is a Jamaican writer currently based in France. Her first collection of short stories, Satellite City, and her novel, Sweetheart, have both won Commonwealth Writers prizes. Sweetheart has been translated into French and was awarded the Prix Carbet des Lycéens in 2017. Her other books include Stories from Yard, Doctor's Orders, and When the Rain Stopped in Natland. McKenzie's work has appeared in a range of literary magazines and in anthologies such as Stories from Blue Latitudes, The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories, Bridges, Global Tales, Girls Night In, and To Exist Is to Resist. She edited a collection of contemporary Jamaican short stories and coedited Where We Started: Stories of Living Between Worlds, an anthology of writing from different countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 132mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9780349702568
• ISBN-10: 034970256X
• Artikelnr.: 62221773