Julie L. Brown

Bend, Don't Break: A Novel (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Finalist for the Wishing Shelf Independent Book Award

"An absorbing, thought-provoking, emotionally engaging, and deftly scripted multi-generational historical novel."Midwest Book Review

"Bend, Don't Break is a powerful, evocative novel that honors the resilience of Black women throughout history...Brown has crafted a novel that does not just recount historyit breathes life into it, making it feel immediate, urgent, and deeply personal."Seattle Book Review

Timely and unforgettable, Bend, Don't Break spans two centuries of American history and is a captivating testament to women's ambition and the unbreakable bond between Black mothers and their daughters.

Drawing strength from their ancestor, Aisha, a slave born free on the west coast of Africa, four Black women will do whatever is necessary to succeedand will do even more to protect their daughters. Aisha's granddaughter, Dinah, a plantation slave, fends off the advances of the master's son and vows to prevent the same mistreatment of her daughter, Sarah. During the Harlem Renaissance, Augusta, an aspiring teacher, falls in love for the first time. Her mother, Julia, is determined to prevent her from getting hurt. Attorney Olivia and her news producer daughter, Nicole, both seek success and equality in the white man's world of 1980s corporate life. And in the present day, Sha, a tech company chief information officer, turns amateur detective after her daughter's assault.

Throughout the generations, these women encounter similar challenges but face them in different ways and survive and thrive through all of it, because they bend but do not break. They demonstrate that although generational trauma can be passed down like an inheritance, so, too, can healing and resilience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: JAB Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781735475080
• Artikelnr.: 72305479

Autorenporträt

Julie L. Brown is the author of the historical fiction, Bend, Don't Break (finalist for the Wishing Shelf Independent Book Award), the alternative-history novel, No One Will Save Us (winner of the Independent Press Award for African American fiction, winner of the Reader Views Literary Award for Global-Africa fiction, winner of the CIBA Humor & Satire Award and finalist for the Reader Views Literary Award for historical fiction and CIBA Chaucer Award) and the creator, under the pen name J. L. Brown, of the Jade Harrington series, political thrillers which include the novels, Don't Speak, Rule of Law, and The Divide, and the short story, "Few Are Chosen."

She is a member of Black Women Write Seattle, Crime Writers of Color, the Historical Novel Society, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, and the Alliance of Independent Authors.

Julie earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. She resides with her family in the Pacific Northwest, where she is working on her next novel.

You can find her on linktr.ee/julielbrown