Tiphanie Yanique
Autore di Land of love and drowning : a novel
Sull'Autore
Opere di Tiphanie Yanique
Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (Poets in the World) (2014) — A cura di — 10 copie
Opere correlate
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Collaboratore — 88 copie
So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth (2023) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1978-09-20
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands
- Luogo di residenza
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands - Istruzione
- Tufts University
University of the West Indies
University of Houston - Attività lavorative
- writer
professor - Organizzazioni
- The New School
New York University
Wesleyan University - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award (2010)
Fulbright Scholarship
National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" (2010)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 718
- Popolarità
- #35,342
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 42
- ISBN
- 25
- Preferito da
- 1
The Bradshaw's story starts with Owen Arthur Bradshaw, a ship's captain, and his wife Antoinette, who are part of highly-respectable family on St. Thomas. They have two daughters, Eona and Anette. Owen also fathers a son named Jacob Esau with his mistress. When their parents die (Owen in a traumatic shipwreck), Eona is forced to put aside her desires to raise Anette. The novel alternates among the three children's points of view as it follows their story up until the 1970s. Yanique's writing feels inspired by Toni Morrison and has touches of magical realism. There's also a lot of incest, both knowing and unknowing.
There are parts of this book that are very interesting but also some parts I found quite absurd (the Hollywood movie ends up being a pornographic film, in the 1950s?) and other times that I just wished that Yanique would get on with the story instead of circling around a point. So, consider this a mixed review.… (altro)