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The furrows : an elegy : a novel
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- ISBN: 9780593448915
- ISBN: 0593448928
- ISBN: 9780593448922
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1 online resource (ix, 271 pages)
remote - Publisher: London ; New York : Hogarth, [2022]
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| Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 12, 2022). |
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- Baker & Taylor
"Cassandra Williams is twelve, and her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they're alone together, an accident happens and Wayne is lost forever. Or so it seems. Though his body is never recovered, their mother, unable to give up hope, launches an organization dedicated to missing children. Their father simply leaves, starts another family somewhere else. As C grows older, she sees her brother everywhere: in coffee shops, airplane aisles, subways cars, cities on either coast. Here is her brother's older face, the light in his eyes, his lanky limbs, the way he seems to recognize her too. But it can't be, of course. Or can it? Disaster strikes again and C meets a man both mysterious and strangely familiar, a man who is also searching for someone, as well as his own place in the world. His name is Wayne"-- - Baker & Taylor
Haunted by the accidental death of her little brother Wayne years ago, Cassandra Williams begins seeing her brother everywhere and meets a man both mysterious and familiar who is also searching for someone and for his own place in the worldâhis name is Wayne. - Random House, Inc.
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award â¢Â One of the New York Timesâ Ten Best Books of the Year â¢Â Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize
âA triumph.ââNew York Magazine
From one of the most celebrated new voices in American literature, a brilliantly inventive and âenthrallingâ (Oprah Daily) novel about the eternal bonds of family and the mysteries of love and lossââalready earning its author comparisons to Toni Morrisonâ (Lit Hub).
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Time, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Esquire, Vulture, Ms. Magazine, Vox, Mental Floss, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly
I donât want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt.
Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother, Wayne, is seven. One day, when theyâre alone together, there is an accident and Wayne is lost forever. His body is never recovered. The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt. Their father leaves, starts another family elsewhere. But their mother canât give up hope and launches an organization dedicated to missing children.Â
As C grows older, she sees her brother everywhere: in bistros, airplane aisles, subway cars. Here is her brotherâs face, the light in his eyes, the way he seems to recognize her, too. But it canât be, of course. Or can it? Then one day, in another accident, C meets a man both mysterious and familiar, a man who is also searching for someone and for his own place in the world. His name is Wayne.Â
Namwali Serpellâs remarkable new novel captures the uncanny experience of grief, the way the past breaks over the present like waves in the sea. The Furrows is a bold exploration of memory and mourning that twists unexpectedly into a story of mistaken identity, double consciousness, and the wishfulâand sometimes willfulâlonging for reunion with those weâve lost.
