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Memphis: a vivid Southern debut paying tribute to an indelible family of females, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 - Softcover

Stringfellow, Tara M

 
9781529339253: Memphis: a vivid Southern debut paying tribute to an indelible family of females, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1529339251 ISBN 13: 9781529339253
Verlag: John Murray, 2023

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The international bestseller and a joyous, moving celebration of three generations of Black women

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Poet, former attorney, Northwestern University MFA graduate, and semifinalist for the Fulbright Fellowship, Tara M Stringfellow has written for Collective Unrest, Minerva Rising, Jet Fuel Review, Women Arts Quarterly Journal and Apogee Journal, among other publications. After having lived in Okinawa, Ghana, Chicago, Cuba, Spain, Italy, and Washington, D.C., she moved back home to Memphis, where she sits on her porch swing with her hound, Huckleberry, every evening, listening to records and chatting with neighbours.

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Joan was only a child the last time she visited Memphis. She doesn't remember the bustle of Beale Street on a summer's night. She doesn't know she's as likely to hear a gunshot ring out as the sound of children playing. How the smell of honeysuckle is almost overwhelming as she climbs the porch steps to the house where her mother grew up. But when the front door opens, she does remember Derek.

This house full of history is home to the women of the North family. They are no strangers to adversity; resilience runs in their blood. Fifty years ago, Hazel's husband was lynched by his all-white police squad, yet she made a life for herself and her daughters in the majestic house he built for them. August lives there still, running a salon where the neighbourhood women gather. And now this house is the only place Joan has left. It is in sketching portraits of the women in her life, her aunt and her mother, the women who come to have their hair done, the women who come to chat and gossip, that Joan begins laughing again, begins living.

Memphis is a celebration of the enduring strength of female bonds, of what we pass down, from mother to daughter. Epic in scope yet intimate in detail, it is a vivid portrait of three generations of a Southern black family, as well as an ode to the city they call home.

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Verlag
John Murray
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1529339251
ISBN 13 
9781529339253
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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