A wounded deer leaps highest - Softcover

Mangel, C.P.

 
9781912477258: A wounded deer leaps highest
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1912477254 ISBN 13: 9781912477258
Verlag: Eyewear Publishing, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Fiction. Poetry. Winner of the 2020 Nautilus Gold Award for Fiction: Self-Published; Small Press. Winner of the Eric Hoffer Award for General Fiction. Winner of a Silver Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY Award) for Multicultural Fiction. Winner of a First Horizon Award for best debut books. Winner of a Moonbeam Children's Book Award Silver Medal for Young Adult Fiction- Historical/Cultural. When Titus Horace; successful African American author; inherits a large tract of land; he leaves Chicago with his Jewish wife Ardene and their daughter Asa; and moves to the segregated North Carolina of 1950. Unhappy at being uprooted from her school and friends; Asa quickly learns how persons of color are intimidated and humiliated on a daily basis and how; despite their education and talent; each day becomes an effort to survive brutal hostility. Asa discovers she and her father; a professor at the college for black students; cannot enter the town's public library. As Asa struggles to adapt to her new life; she falls in love with a musical savant who lives in a cabin on Horace land; and joins members of a small diverse community to defy the oppression of legal segregation through profound acts of resistance.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

C.P. Mangel received Bachelor of Arts and Master of Public Health degrees from Northwestern University, and Juris Doctor from Georgetown University. Mangel practiced law for over two decades, and then received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia. Mangel's book, A WOUNDED DEER LEAPS HIGHEST (Eyewear Publishing, 2019) won a Silver Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY Award) for Multicultural Fiction and a First Horizon Award for best debut books.

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Verlag
Eyewear Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1912477254
ISBN 13 
9781912477258
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
664
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