Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Promise

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"New England, 1957. The Kindred sisters--Ezra and Cinthy--grew up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who let them believe that the stories they tell on stars can come true. Love from their neighbors, the Junketts, the only other Black family in town, whose home is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And love for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beautiful village perched high up on coastal bluffs. But as the girls hit adolescence, their maturing bodies and minds start to change the way their white neighbors see them"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780593241929
• ISBN-10: 0593241924
• Artikelnr.: 66230595

Autorenporträt

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, visual artist, and novelist. She is a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for a NAACP Image Award. Griffiths is also a recipient of fellowships from many organizations, including Cave Canem Foundation, Kimbilio, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Yaddo. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Tin House, and other publications. Promise is her first novel.

Rezensionen

Promise is forged in a crucible of irrational violence and darkness that paradoxically gives birth to luminous, resilient love. This is a novel so potent, written in such transcendent prose, one wonders if it's secretly a magic spell. It's a stunning achievement Kiran Desai, author of THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS