Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Broschiertes Buch

Promise

Beschreibung

Two Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their dreams as the civil right movement sweeps the nation.

Autor

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is an artist, poet, and novelist. Her recent hybrid collection of poetry and photography, Seeing the Body, was selected as the winner of the 2021 Hurston/Wright Foundation Award in Poetry, the winner of the 2020 Paterson Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the 2021 NAACP Image Award. Griffiths' work has appeared widely, including The New Yorker, the Paris Review, Best American Poetry (2020, 2021), Tin House, and many others. Her debut novel, Promise, was published in 2023. She lives in New York City.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton / John Murray
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 911512
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 127mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781399809832
• ISBN-10: 1399809830
• Artikelnr.: 69898634

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