Aracelis Girmay

Kamau and ZuZu Find a Way (eBook, ePUB)

A Picture Book
Illustrator: Ejaita, Diana

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A stirring story of African diaspora, resourcefulness, and intergenerational love by National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and renowned poet Aracelis Girmay, and acclaimed illustrator Diana Ejaita. One of Maria Popova's Marginalian Favorites of 2024! An Academy of American Poets Featured Fall Book for Young Readers! One of PW's "12 Children's Books by Black Authors to Read in 2024!" A Bookstagang Best of 2024 Picture Book Selection, for Best Illustration​! One day, young Kamau and his grandmother ZuZu wake up to find themselves on the moon. Kamau doesn't remember Back Home, but Grandma ZuZu does, and she misses it terribly. Together, through cloth scraps and dance, letters and song, Kamau and ZuZu find a way to make a new life for themselves in this strange land: a new life which is not only rooted in the stories, memories, and traditions that ZuZu always carries with her, but which also lovingly reaches out across the vast expanse of space to connect and communicate with the family from which they've been separated.

Acclaimed poet Aracelis Girmay and illustrator Diana Ejaita together weave a powerful story inspired by the African diaspora, in which-despite the shock of being uprooted into this alien world, without being given any choice or explanation, and the sorrow that comes from the unfathomable distance separating them from their beloved community-Kamau and ZuZu find a way to live, as people do.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abrams
• Seitenzahl: 60
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781592704279
• Artikelnr.: 70325494

Autorenporträt

Aracelis Girmay is a writer, teacher, aunt, and mother. She is the author of three books of poems and is the editor of How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton. For her work she has received the Whiting Award, the Isabella Gardner Award, and the GLCA New Writers Award. Her books have also been named finalists for the Connecticut Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Hurston/Wright Award, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Most recently, Girmay's poetry and essays have been published in The Paris Review, Granta, Black Renaissance Noire, and PEN America, among other publications. She is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund, and she lives and reads with her family in Brooklyn, New York.