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How to Escape from a Leper Colony: A Novella and Stories

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Availability:In StockContributor:Tiphanie YaniquePublish date:2010-03-02Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Graywolf PressISBN-13:9781555975500ISBN-10:155597550XUPC:9781555975500Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), LiteraryAward:2011 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award Nominee - Fiction AwardSize:8.96 x 6.10 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCJE9T12T5

An enthralling debut collection from a singular Caribbean voice

For a leper, many things are impossible, and many other things are easily done. Babalao Chuck said he could fly to the other side of the island and peek at the nuns bathing. And when a man with no hands claims that he can fly, you listen.

The inhabitants of an island walk into the sea. A man passes a jail cell's window, shouldering a wooden cross. And in the international shop of coffins, a story repeats itself, pointing toward an inevitable tragedy. If the facts of these stories are sometimes fantastical, the situations they describe are complex and all too real.

Lyrical, lush, and haunting, the prose shimmers in this nuanced debut, set mostly in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Part oral history, part postcolonial narrative, How to Escape from a Leper Colony is ultimately a loving portrait of a wholly unique place. Like Gabriel García Márquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Condé before her, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a book that is heartbreaking, hilarious, magical, and mesmerizing. An unforgettable collection.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Graywolf PressISBN-13:9781555975500ISBN-10:155597550XUPC:9781555975500Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), LiteraryAward:2011 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award Nominee - Fiction AwardSize:8.96 x 6.10 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCJE9T12T5

Tihpanie Yanique is from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. An assistant professor at Drew University, she lives in Brooklyn, New York, and St. Thomas with her partner, Moses Djeli.


Publisher: Graywolf Press

Awards

🏆 2011 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award Nominee - Fiction Award

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