Broughtupsy - Cooke, Christina
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Erscheint vorauss. 28. Januar 2025
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"Tired of not having a place to land, twenty-year-old Akâua flies from Canada to her native Jamaica to reconnect with her estranged sister Tamika. Their younger brother Bryson has recently passed from sickle cell anemia--the same disease that took their mother ten years prior-- and Akâua carries his remains in a small wooden box with the hope of reassembling her family. Over the span of two fateful weeks, Akâua and Tamika visit significant places from their childhood, but time spent with her sister only clarifies how different they are, and how years of living abroad have distanced Akâua rom her home culture."--…mehr

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"Tired of not having a place to land, twenty-year-old Akâua flies from Canada to her native Jamaica to reconnect with her estranged sister Tamika. Their younger brother Bryson has recently passed from sickle cell anemia--the same disease that took their mother ten years prior-- and Akâua carries his remains in a small wooden box with the hope of reassembling her family. Over the span of two fateful weeks, Akâua and Tamika visit significant places from their childhood, but time spent with her sister only clarifies how different they are, and how years of living abroad have distanced Akâua rom her home culture."--
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Autorenporträt
Named a “Writer to Watch” by CBC Books and Shondaland, CHRISTINA COOKE’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Caribbean Writer, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature, Epiphany, Michigan Quarterly Review, Apogee, PRISM International, and others. Born in Jamaica, Christina is now a Canadian citizen who lives and writes in New York City.