This Thing Called the Future - Powers, J. L.
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From the first words we are drawn into Khosi's world. A great achievement by J.L. Powers.Deborah Ellis, author of "The Breadwinner Trilogy " South Africa & AIDS. 14-year-old Khosi yearns for this thing called the future. Does she want too much? "Khosi's heartbreaking and redemptive coming-of-age story compels us to face the demons within cultural superstitions and choose a future that can be changed." Ann Angel, author of "Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing " "In a literary landscape cluttered with the imagined powers of the paranormal, This Thing Called the Future introduces us to the reality that…mehr

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From the first words we are drawn into Khosi's world. A great achievement by J.L. Powers.Deborah Ellis, author of "The Breadwinner Trilogy " South Africa & AIDS. 14-year-old Khosi yearns for this thing called the future. Does she want too much? "Khosi's heartbreaking and redemptive coming-of-age story compels us to face the demons within cultural superstitions and choose a future that can be changed." Ann Angel, author of "Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing " "In a literary landscape cluttered with the imagined powers of the paranormal, This Thing Called the Future introduces us to the reality that supernatural strength exists here and now. Gripping, honest, and eye-opening, this book will change the way you see the world." Emily Wing Smith, author of "The Way He Lived" and "Back When You Were Easier to Love " "J.L. Powers takes the challenges and sorrows of contemporary South Africa and renders them powerfully immediate in the character of Khosi, a girl negotiating coming of age in her post-apartheid, AIDS-ravaged country. Provocative, unvarnished, loving." Sarah Ellis, author of "Odd Man Out" and "The Several Lives of Orphan Jack" "
Autorenporträt
J.L. Powers is the award-winning author of three young adult novels, The Confessional, This Thing Called the Future, and Amina. She is also the editor of two collections of essays and author of a picture book, Colors of the Wind. She works as an editor/publicist for Cinco Puntos Press, and is founder and editor of the online blog, The Pirate Tree: Social Justice and Children's Literature. She teaches creative writing, literature, and composition at Skyline College in California's Bay Area and served as a jurist for the 2014 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature. She launched Catalyst Press in 2017 to publish African writers. She can be found at www.jlpowers.net, www.powerssquared.com, and www.catalystpress.org. Places: