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When Trying to Return Home: Stories

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jennifer Maritza McCauleyPublish date:2024-02-06Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Counterpoint LLCISBN-13:9781640096349ISBN-10:1640096345UPC:9781640096349Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), African American & Black, Hispanic & LatinoBook Topic:WomenSize:7.90 x 5.70 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC55Q5BZPZ
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond--and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own terms

Profoundly moving and powerful, the stories in When Trying to Return Home dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between overwhelming love for her mother and the need to break free from her damaging influence during a desperate and disastrous attempt to rescue her brother from foster care. A man, his wife, and his mistress each confront the borders separating love and hate, obligation and longing, on the eve of a flight to San Juan. A college student grapples with the space between chivalry and machismo in a tense encounter involving a nun. And in 1930s Louisiana, a woman attempting to find a place to call her own chances upon an old friend at a bar and must reckon with her troubled past.

Forming a web of desires and consequences that span generations, McCauley's Black American and Afro-Puerto Rican characters remind us that these voices have always been here, occupying the very center of American life--even if we haven't always been willing to listen.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Counterpoint LLCISBN-13:9781640096349ISBN-10:1640096345UPC:9781640096349Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), African American & Black, Hispanic & LatinoBook Topic:WomenSize:7.90 x 5.70 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC55Q5BZPZ
Jennifer Maritza McCauley is a writer, poet, and university professor. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kimbilio, CantoMundo and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. She holds an MFA from Florida International University and a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Missouri. The author of the cross-genre collection SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, she is an assistant professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC

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