Jump at the Sun - A Novel

After a series of stressful personal transitions, Grace Jefferson finds herself in a new house in a new city and in a new career for which she feels dangerously unsuited: a stay-at-home mom. An educated and accomplished modern woman, a child of the Civil Rights dream, she is caught between the only two models of mothering she has ever known--a sharecropping grandmother who abandoned her children to save herself and a mother who sacrificed all to save her kids--as she struggles to find a middle ground. But as the days pass and the pressures mount, Grace begins to catch herself in small acts of abandonment that she fears may foretell a future she is powerless to prevent . . . or perhaps secretly seeks. Jump at the Sun is a novel about an isolating suburban life and the continuing legacy of slavery, about generational change and the price of living the dream for which our parents fought. In her bold and fearless voice, Kim McLarin explores both the highs and lows of being a mother, and how breaking the cycle of suffocation and regret, while infuriatingly difficult, is absolutely necessary.

About the author

Kim McLarin is respected as "one of the bravest novelists in recent times" (Philadelphia Tribune). She is a former journalist for the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Associated Press, among other news organizations. The author of the critically acclaimed novels Taming It Down and Meeting of the Waters, McLarin is currently writer-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.

Product details

• Authors: Kim McLarin
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2007
• EAN: 9780060528508
• ISBN: 978-0-06-052850-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Women, FICTION: General, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Science Fiction / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Family Life / Siblings, FICTION: African American & Black / Mystery & Detective, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: African American & Black / Historical, FICTION: African American & Black / Urban & Street Lit, FICTION: Historical / Ancient