Break This House - Iloh, Candice
16,99 €
inkl. MwSt.

Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen
Melden Sie sich für den Produktalarm an, um über die Verfügbarkeit des Produkts informiert zu werden.

  • Gebundenes Buch

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.…mehr

Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
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.