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From Brooklyn to the island of Jamaica, Tea by the Sea traces a mother’s circuitous route to find the daughter taken from her at birth.
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Jamaican-born Donna Hemans is the author of the novel River Woman, winner of the 2003–4 Towson University Prize for Literature. Tea by the Sea, for which she won the Lignum Vitae Una Marson Award for Adult Literature, is her second novel. Her short fiction has appeared in the Caribbean Writer, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, and the anthology Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad, among others. She received her undergraduate degree from Fordham University and an MFA from American University. She lives in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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From Brooklyn to the island of Jamaica, Tea by the Sea traces a mother’s circuitous route to find the daughter taken from her at birth.
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“Tea By the Sea is a powder keg of a novel, where secrets and lies explode into truth and consequences, all told with spellbinding, shattering power. Hemans doesn't just fulfill the promise of her debut— she soars past it."
—Marlon James, Man Booker Prize Winning author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Op-ed in Electric Literature
The forbidden love story of Plum and Lenworth comes alive in this heart-rending novel, Tea by the Sea. Hemans has a stunning ability to give words to that elusive feeling of emptiness, and the longing for redemption is palpable. In Hemans’s deft hands, regrets are explored with precision and compassion so that the reader finds herself unable to turn against even characters who have committed the most wretched betrayals. Tea by the Sea is like the story told in a grandmother’s kitchen with the odors of fried dumplings and saltfish wafting into mouths that are set agape at the heady twists and turns delivered in an urgent and beautiful prose.
—Lauren Francis-Sharma, author of ’Til the Well Runs Dry
Tea by the Sea is an insightful and illuminating prism of a novel, deftly examining familial identity and personal transformation. Hemans turns the kaleidoscope, catching light at different angles, to show us how one person’s act of honor and responsibility can also be an act of unspeakable betrayal.
—Carolyn Parkhurst, author of The Dogs of Babel and Harmony
"Tea by the Sea is a well-written novel exploring the themes of agency, love, and loss."—LynnDee Wathen, Booklist
"A deftly crafted and entertaining work of impressive literary nuance, Tea by the Sea by Donna Hemans is an extraordinary, original, and inherently fascinating novel."—Midwest Book Review
A Conversation in the Washington Independent Review of Books
An interview with Aimee Liu in The Rumpus
An interview in New York State Writers Institute
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In beautiful, wrenching prose, Hemans’
Tea by the Sea tells an unforgettably moving story of family love, identity, and betrayal.
—G.P. Gottlieb, author of ’ Whipped and Sipped mystery series."Don’t expect a facile morality play: Hemans writes with precision about the most private bacchanals of the heart, the utter vexations of the spirit. Read with a rum-soaked handkerchief."
—Shivanee Ramlochan,
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