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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Memoir

Jennifer Neal – My Pisces Heart

Jennifer Neal My Pisces Heart recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de memoir. Op 22 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Catapult het nieuwe boek met een memoir van de zwarte queer immigrant Jennifer Neal. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Jennifer Heart My Pisces Heart recensie, review en informatie

  • “This is both a gorgeously written memoir of a life well-traveled, and a deeply researched inquiry into the ways that race, gender, sexuality, and history inform one’s ability to move about the world at all.” (James Factora, them)
  • “A detailed, nuanced, researched, historically important account of systemic racism in the many places the author has sought to make a home. This relatable, important book stretches readers’ understanding of nationalism into globalism and of home into a complex concept for those whose homes create racialized harm . . . Readers of Neal’s book will be challenged in the best of ways..” (Booklist)

Jennifer Neal My Pisces Heart

My Pisces Heart

A Black Immigrant’s Search for Home Across Four Continents

  • Auteur: Jennifer Neal (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Capapult
  • Verschijnt: 22 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / eboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de memoir van Jennifer Neal

With heart, humor, and razor-sharp observation, this intimate and incisive memoir traces the journey of a Black, queer woman as she searches the world for a place of security and acceptance to call home.

I’ve never seen home as a permanent concept; it is an image crafted from untempered glass that threatens to shatter with lack of care.

Jennifer Neal was born in the United States to a family that moved continuously for their own survival and well-being—from the Great Migration to the twenty-first century. As an adult, she has continued to travel the world as a Black queer woman, across two decades and four countries—from Japan to the US and then Australia to Germany, where she has settled for now.

Throughout her moves, Neal threads her personal story of immigration with local Black histories and racial politics to provide context for her own experiences. The result is both a crucial examination of how racism plays a foundational role in modern-day immigration systems and a tender tribute to immigrants and their stories.

An unwavering interrogation of colonialism and policy, love and loss, hypocrisy and resistance, My Pisces Heart demands meaningful conversation about not only the ways in which we live with our histories, but also how they live through us—urging an honest dialogue on why the West continues to grapple with its past and visualize its future.

Jennifer Neal is an American Australian author, artist, and occasional standup comedian. Her work has been published in NPR, Playboy, Gay Magazine, The Root, The Erotic Review, The Cut, and many other publications. She is a MacDowell Fellow and Pushcart Prize-nominated essayist. My Pisces Heart is her second book.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers

Jesse Ball – The Repeat Room

Jesse Ball The Repeat Room recensie, review en informatie over de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 24 september 2024 verschijnt bij Catapult de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Jesse Ball. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is nog niet verschenen of aangekondigd.

Jesse Ball The Repeat Room recensie, review en informatie

  • “A Kafkaesque descent into a legal system . . . The contrast between the first and second halves of Ball’s mesmerizing novel is stark and effective . . . A fast-paced tilt-a-whirl of a social commentary absurdist novel, with insights that will leave readers feeling complicit.” (Shelf Awareness)
  • “The fictional realms Ball constructs are unnerving in their depictions of social and physical austerity, facades behind which emotions roil . . . Ball’s vision is chilling, his writing flawless in this stark, grueling tale.” (Booklist)

Jesse Ball The Repeat Room

The Repeat Room

  • Auteur: Jesse Ball (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever:  Catapult
  • Verschijnt: 24 september 2024
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 27,00 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Jesse Ball

Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brilliant and distinctive writers.

In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant’s lived experience, to see as if through their eyes.

The case to which Abel is assigned is revealed in the novel’s shocking second act. We receive a record of a boy’s broken and constrained life, a tale that reveals an illicit and passionate psycho-sexual relationship, its end as tragic as the circumstances of its conception.

Artful in its suspense, and sharp in its evocation of a byzantine and cruel bureaucracy, The Repeat Room is an exciting and pointed critique of the nature of knowledge and judgment, and a vivid framing of Ball’s absurd and nihilistic philosophy of love.

Jesse Ball (7 June 1978, Port Jefferson, New York) is an absurdist whose prize-winning work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Gothic novel

J. Nicole Jones – The Witches of Bellinas

J. Nicole Jones The Witches of Bellinas recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de eerste gothic novel van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 14 mei 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Catapult de gothic novel en eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster J. Nicole Jones. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

J. Nicole Jones The Witches of Bellinas recensie

Mocht er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnen van The Witches of Bellinas, de roman van schrijfster J. Nicole Jones, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

  • “Jones’s lyrical yet ominous prose affects a bewitching vibe of its own (‘Don’t believe those who say that the fog is just fog . . . that the thunderheads worn by nearby mountain peaks are merely weather’). Readers will find this haunting tale is tough to shake.” (Publishers Weekly)
  • “At the intersection of the supernatural and simple human ugliness, The Witches of Bellinas gives its readers chills and thrills along with a profound sense of wrongs done, but no heroes or villains. This is a novel for anyone who’s wondered if the picturesque might be too good to be true.” (Shelf Awareness)

J. Nicole Jones The Witches of Bellinas

The Witches of Bellinas

  • Auteur: J. Nicole Jones (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: gothic novel, debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Catapult
  • Verschijnt: 14 mei 2024
  • Omvang: 240 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $27,00 / $14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de gothic novel van J. Nicole Jones

A dreamy California Gothic about a woman who moves to the mysterious town of Bellinas to save her marriage, only to be swept up in a hedonistic cult that isn’t what it seems.

Tansy and her husband Guy are the newest arrivals in Bellinas, a lush oasis tucked into the coast of northern California where a reclusive, creative community is beginning to take shape. Helmed by Guy’s cousin Mia, a famous model -turned -wellness -luminary, and her tech mogul husband, the group renounces the outside world in pursuit of purity, fashioning their own rules about what to eat and how to live.

Everything seems perfect in Bellinas: food is abundant, flowers are always in bloom, and nearby wildfires leave the town remarkably unscathed. While Guy is happy in their new lives, Tansy becomes more and more suspicious of the community and increasingly desperate to save her already-fragile marriage. And as lonely women have throughout the ages, she wants to believe in what may only be a beautiful lie.

The Witches of Bellinas unfolds as a confession from Tansy, filled with anguish over the life, and sense of self, she’s surrendered in her desperation to belong. In J. Nicole Jones’s clever reimagining of cult power and groupthink, the question isn’t why join, but rather, what happens when you understand the danger, but can’t conceive of a way out?

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers

Peter Cameron – What Happens at Night

Peter Cameron What Happens at Night recensie en informatie over de inhoud van deze nieuwe Amerikaanse roman. Op 4 augustus 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Catapult de achtste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Peter Cameron. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman aangekondigd.

Peter Cameron What Happens at Night Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman What Happens at Night. Het boek is geschreven door Peter Cameron. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de achtste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijver Peter Cameron.

Peter Cameron What Happens at Night Recensie

What Happens at Night

  • Schrijver: Peter Cameron (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, psychologische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Catapult
  • Verschijnt: 4 augustus 2020
  • Omvang; 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Ebook

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Peter Cameron

In this atmospheric novel, an American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby, who they hope will resurrect their failing marriage. Their difficult journey leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child.

The couple checks into the eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel, where the bar is always open and the restaurant serves thirteen-course dinners from centuries past. Their attempt to claim their baby is both helped and hampered by the people they encounter: an ancient, flamboyant chanteuse; a debauched businessman; an enigmatic faith healer; and a stoic bartender who dispenses an addictive, lichen-flavored schnapps. Nothing is as it seems in this mysterious, frozen world, and the longer the couple endure the punishing cold, the less they seem to know about their marriage, themselves, and life itself.

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