Christina Fonthes

Where You Go, I Will Go (eBook, ePUB)

the emotional and redemptive family saga

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Evocative and exhilarating. Christina Fonthes is a fresh and powerful new writer with a beautiful voice and bold talent'
Salena Godden, author of Mrs. Death Misses Death

'A wonderful, vital novel exploring familial legacies and queer lives. Fonthes deftly charts the complex paths of these characters with real verve and authenticity'
Irenosen Okojie MBE

'A captivating read from an exciting new voice'
Cherie Jones, author of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

1980's Kinshasa. Mira is the teenage daughter of a family on the rise. When she falls in love with an impoverished singer, a criminal the eyes of her parents, it sets her on a dramatic path that winds its way across oceans and decades.

2004, London. Bijoux is a young British-Congolese woman living with her silent and flinty Pentecostal aunt, Tantine Mireille. Outwardly she plays the role of the obedient child, going to prayer meetings and following instructions. But Bijoux has a secret; she is in love with a woman. She has been for a year. When her aunt wants her to marry one of the young men from the church, Bijoux has to make a decision.

Vividly bringing to life the Congo and its diaspora, Where You Go, I Will Go weaves Bijoux and Mira's stories together across two continents, two generations, through the mess of love and sexuality, and the pull of mother-daughter relationships, to finally bring them to a place of belonging - home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Headline
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781035411870
• Artikelnr.: 72317935

Autorenporträt

Christina Fonthes is a Congolese-British writer. She is the founder of REWRITE, an organisation that supports and champions Black Women and Women of Colour writers. In 2021 she was the winner of the prestigious Royal Society of Literature Sky Arts Writers Award for Fiction, and mentored by Bernardine Evaristo and Irenosen Okojie. Her work has featured in several publications around the world including Too Young Too Black Too Different (Corsair), The Colour Of Madness (Bluebird/Macmillan), Filigree (Peepal Tree Press), Flight Journal (Spread The Word) among others.