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Break This House
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Artikel-Nr:
9780525556237
Veröffentl:
2022
Erscheinungsdatum:
24.05.2022
Seiten:
224
Autor:
Candice Iloh
Gewicht:
344 g
Format:
216x147x24 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Candice Iloh is a first-generation Nigerian American writer whose books center home. They are from the Midwest by way of Washington, DC, and Brooklyn, New York. They are a proud alumna of the Rhode Island Writers Colony, and their work has earned fellowships from Lambda Literary, VONA, and Kimbilio Fiction and a residency with Hi-ARTS, where they debuted their first one-person show in 2018. Candice became a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and, in 2021, a Printz Award Honoree for their debut novel, Every Body Looking. Salt the Water is their third novel.
From Printz honoree and National Book Award Finalist Candice Iloh, a prose novel about a Yasminah Okar, a teenager reckoning with her family's secrets as she returns to the city where her mother recently died.Yasminah left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family with her father years ago. She's made a life for herself in Brooklyn. She thinks she's left her past-and more-behind. But when news reaches her via a cousin's Facebook that her estranged mother is dead and will be memorialized at a summer family reunion, the memories Yasminah has stubbornly shut out since she got to New York come roaring back. Her only choice is to return to Obsidian.
A brilliant sophomore novel on the heels of an acclaimed debut: Every Body Looking was a National Book Award finalist and a Printz Award honor book. Break This House confirms Jason Reynold's declaration that "Candice Iloh is a writer to watch."Sensitive treatment of addiction's effects on a family: Iloh vividly captures the frustration and despair associated with losing a parent to addiction.Nuanced portraits of Black neighborhoods: As Yasminah searches for place that she can truly call home, Iloh expertly depicts all the little details that make houses, blocks, and whole cities meaningful to their residents. A novel in prose: Iloh's voice is just as powerful, distinct, and lyrical in prose as it was in verse.