Julie Iromuanya

eBook, ePUB

Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

There's a considerable interest in novels by African writers lately-Bulawayo, Adichie, Taiye Selasi, Teju Cole-to the point that Flavorwire and the Guardian are making lists of them, and this novel fits in nicely, while treading new territory.

At the same time, it strikes a particularly Midwestern note, firmly in the tradition of Sinclair and Sandburg, chronicling the struggles of recent immigrants, the brutality of meatpacking work, and the friction that occurs as new groups assimilate, or fail to.

The novel deals with race and racism in ways that are less familiar-African prejudice against African Americans, the fraught politics of an interracial green card marriage, and the collision of the class one was raised in with the class one has immigrated to join.

Iromuanya's treatment of her characters is empathetic and clear-eyed-she captures just how their decisions have boxed them in, and how pride, expectations, and compromise shape each person's approximation of the American Dream.

The descriptive power of the novel, and its emotional heft, don't allow anyone to be dismissed, making for a powerful read with enough conflict and connections to current events to keep a book club busy.

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Autor

Julie Iromuanya is the author of Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (Coffee House Press), a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature (now 9 Mobile Prize for Literature), and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Debut Fiction. Her scholarly-critical work most recently appears in Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism and is forthcoming in Callaloo: A Journal of African American Arts and Letters and Afropolitan Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury Publishing). She was the inaugural Herbert W. Martin Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Dayton. She has also been a Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellow in Fiction at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference, a Bread Loaf Bakeless/Camargo France Fellow, a Brown Foundation Fellow at the Dora Maar House, a Jan Michalski Fellow at "The Treehouses," and the Eternal Vada Fellow at Sangam House. Her work has also been supported by fellowships and residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, Villa Lena, and Villa Ruffieux. Iromuanya earned her B.A. at the University of Central Florida and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she was a Presidential Fellow and award-winning teacher. She is an assistant professor in the creative writing MFA program at the University of Arizona. She is at work on a second novel, A Season of Light.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Coffee House Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781566893985
• Artikelnr.: 42564810