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Indlæser... The Birds of Opulence (Kentucky Voices) (udgave 2016)af Crystal Wilkinson (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Beautiful. Kept thinking about it for days. Part of me wanted more of each character's story, especially Yolanda, but that's not what the story was doing. The grounding in a place is strong, and the use of pov is excellent. I can tell Wilkinson is a poet but the sentences don't get bogged down in preciousness of diction or syntax. Meant all the more to me that it is a Kentucky book. ( ) This lovely little novel looks at the lives of several generations of women in a small black southern township called Opulence. There are arrivals of new babies and the death of loved ones. Strong relationships and destructive ones. The writing is lyrical and engaging. The narrators of the audio do a fantastic job but I might revisit this one in print. I am sure there is more to savor there. wilkinson is a lovely writer, and her settings and characters were wonderfully vivid. i do feel as though a couple of the main characters - mona and yolanda - fell by the wayside at the end, so that is holding me back from rating it a bit higher. it is amazing what wilkinson was able to do in a relatively short novel, but i definitely could have spent more time with the people of opulence. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street comes an astonishing new novel. A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarrassment over mental illness and illegitimacy. Meanwhile, single mother Francine Clark is haunted by her dead, lightning-struck husband and forced to fight against both the moral judgment of the community and her own rebellious daughter, Mona. The residents of Opulence struggle with vexing relationships to the land, to one another, and to their own sexuality. As the members of the youngest generation watch their mothers and grandmothers pass away, they live with the fear of going mad themselves and must fight to survive. Crystal Wilkinson offers up Opulence and its people in lush, poetic detail. It is a world of magic, conjuring, signs, and spells, but also of harsh realities that only love?and love that's handed down?can conquer. At once tragic and hopeful, this captivating novel is a story about another time, rendered for our own. No library descriptions found. |
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