Peter Nathaniel Malae

Our Frail Blood (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Malae is like a young Nelson Algren or Richard Wright, one of those writers who can hit with both hands." -Russell Banks

By way of Italy, the Felice family puts down new roots in Southern California, settling into a grand Victorian home and buying a share of the great American Dream. But for their five, first-generation children, an idyllic childhood didn't quite translate into success and happiness. Rather, the pressures of living up to expectations drove a wide rift through the family.

After decades apart, the five siblings find themselves together again at their ailing mother's bedside, caught in a deadlocked feud over her hospice care. Into the morass steps Murron Teinetoa, one of their bastard children, who carries an idealistic hope of finally fitting in among her estranged relatives.

In an interweaving narrative, Malae portrays the Felices in their formative years of the fifties; he excavates the personal lives of the siblings in the eighties and nineties; and he follows Murron in the present as she raises her son as a single mother. A powerful and fiery multi-generational story, Our Frail Blood captures the beauty and horror, the strength and fragility, the selfishness and love comprising the threads of familial bonds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780802193711
• Artikelnr.: 52359826

Autorenporträt

Peter Nathaniel Malae is the author of What We Are, a New York Times Editors' Choice, and the story collection, Teach the Free Man, a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and a notable book selection by Story Prize. Winner of the San Francisco Foundation/Intersection for the Arts Joseph Henry Jackson Award, Malae is a former Steinbeck, MacDowell, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellow. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.