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Carregando... Holler, Child: Storiesde Latoya Watkins
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. These heartbreaking stories are told by Black women and men who can hardly get off their West Texas Striver's Row to make satisfactory lives due to racism and lack of opportunity. Each has had more than their share of unfulfilled hopes, and it is difficult to not conclude that the same generational wealth accumulated by white people, or a guaranteed basic monthly income, or some form of financial reparations, would not have made a tremendous difference in their lives. Mothers and children are the primary protagonists - most of them in conflict but yearning for better connections and more visible love. Among them: a messianic prophet; a former ranch hand brought down by city life; widows and women whose men and children don't survive; a gay man whose family cannot accept him; a son who makes the same misjudgment with a girl that was made against his mother; and all manners of painful betrayals. All of the voices are resonant, needful, and unique. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"In Holler, Child's eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something-hope, reconciliation, freedom. In 'Cutting Horse,' the appearance of a horse in a man's suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In 'Holler, Child,' a mother is forced into an impossible position when her son gets in a kind of trouble she knows too well fromthe other side. And 'Time After' shows us the unshakable bonds of family as a sister journeys to find her estranged brother-the one who saved her many times over. Throughout Holler, Child, we see love lost and gained, and grief turned to hope. Much like LaToya Watkins's acclaimed debut novel, Perish, this collection peers deeply into lives of women and men experiencing intimate and magnificent reckonings-exploring how race, power, and inequality map on the individual, and demonstrating the mythic proportions of everyday life"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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