Buchanan Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Starling Days (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The moving new novel by the author of Harmless Like You, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and NPR Great Read On their first date, Mina told Oscar that she was bisexual, vegetarian, and on meds. He married her anyhow. A challenge to be met. She had low days, sure, but manageable. But now, maybe not so much . . . Mina is standing on the George Washington Bridge late at night, staring over the edge, when a patrol car drives up. She tries to convince the policeman she's not about to jump, but he doesn't believe her. Oscar is called to pick her up. With the idea of leaving New York for London-a place for Mina "to learn the floorplan of this sadness"-Oscar arranges a move. In London, Mina, a classicist, tries grappling with her mental health issues by making lists. Of WOMEN WHO SURVIVED-Penelope, Psyche, Leda. Iphigenia, but only in one of the tellings. Of things that make her HAPPY-enamel coffee cups. But what else? She at last finds a beam of light in Phoebe, and friendship and attraction blossom until Oscar and Mina's complicated love is tested. A gorgeously wrought novel, variously about love, mythology, mental illness, Japanese beer, and the times we need to seek out milder psychological climates, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan's Starling Days-written in exquisite prose rich with lightly ironic empathy-is a complex and compelling work of fiction by a singularly gifted young writer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ABRAMS
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781683358374
• Artikelnr.: 61462915

Autorenporträt

ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN is an American and British novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her first novel Harmless Like You was a New York Times Editors' Choice and an NPR Great Read. In the UK it won the Author's Club First Novel Award, a Betty Trask award, and was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize. Her work has appeared in Granta, Guernica, the Guardian, and the Paris Review, among other places.

Rezensionen

A poetic, hypnotic exploration of mental health...It's a strangely mind-expanding read that's a must for anyone who's struggled with depression or loves someone who does. Stylist