How to Love a Jamaican - Stories

Zusatztext Zadie Smith has lavished praise on this collection and it's no wonder - Arthurs's stories share Smith's tender and melancholic nostalgia. Informationen zum Autor Alexia Arthurs was born and raised in Jamaica and moved with her family to Brooklyn when she was twelve. A graduate of Hunter College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has been published in Small Axe and the Paris Review, which awarded her the Plimpton Prize in 2017. How to Love a Jamaican is her debut short story collection. Alexia Arthurs lives in Iowa City. Klappentext 'In this thrilling debut collection Alexia Arthurs is all too easy to love.' Zadie Smith 'There is a way to be cruel that seems Jamaican to me.' Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret - Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection of short stories, How to Love a Jamaican, about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home. Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and Midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life. In 'Light Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands', an NYU student befriends a fellow Jamaican whose privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In 'Mash Up Love', a twin's chance sighting of his estranged brother - the prodigal son of the family - stirs up unresolved feelings of resentment. In 'Bad Behavior', a mother and father leave their wild teenage daughter with her grandmother in Jamaica, hoping the old ways will straighten her out. In 'Mermaid River', a Jamaican teenage boy is reunited with his mother in New York after eight years apart. In 'The Ghost of Jia Yi', a recently murdered international student haunts a despairing Jamaican athlete recruited to an Iowa college. And in 'Shirley from a Small Place', a world-famous pop star retreats to her mother's big new house in Jamaica, which still holds the power to restore something vital. The winner of the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize for 'Bad Behavior', Alexia Arthurs emerges in this vibrant, lyrical, intimate collection as one of fiction's most dynamic and essential young authors. Zusammenfassung From a magnetic new voice, a debut story collection set in Jamaica and America, for readers of Zadie Smith, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Yaa Gyasi....

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Alexia Arthurs
• Edition: Picador Uk
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781509883592
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-8359-2
• Pages: 256
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 225 mm x 29 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Jamaika, Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik, Belletristik: Erzählungen, Kurzgeschichten, Short Stories, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Jamaica, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Karibik / Roman, Erzählung, Jamaica; debut; short story collection; short stories; Paris Review; Plimpton Prize; Iowa Writers Workshop; emigration; Black women; Jamaican-American; British-Jamaican; race relations; gender; identity politics; sexuality, In Bezug auf schwarze britische Karibik Menschen, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to Black British Caribbean people