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Sto caricando le informazioni... House of Cotton: A Novel (edizione 2023)di Monica Brashears (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Damn... Beautiful, disturbing and ultimately hopeful. Brava!! ( ) I enjoyed reading this book, but I didn't fully connect to it. The characters are interesting. I was never bored. In fact, it's quite readable. I just never felt any emotion for the characters. It's not the typical sort of book that I read, and the blurb makes it sound a bit more sinister than it is. I spent about 60% of the book waiting for something other than Southern Good Ol' Boy Racism to happen. It never did. This is one of those fantastic stories that rewards a careful reading. Part katabasis and part modern gothic, it leaves a reader overjoyed with the fertility of its interpretive value. I wouldn’t recommended it for those who prefer a literal story and take events at face value. I borrowed this from the library but immediately went out after and bought myself a copy so I could have it always. Honestly, if a fresh Southern Gothic novel complete with haints sounds like your jam, just read this book. I'm trying to find some words to do this one justice! I was immediately on Magnolia's side as she imagines herself as the smallest details from fairy tales, as if she is thinking of herself as the breadcrumbs in Hansel & Gretel or the bean in Jack & the Beanstalk. There is something endearing about Magnolia imagining herself as the smallest things, especially when she wants her mind to drift from her difficult situation. The book begins with the death of Magnolia's grandmother, which leaves 19 year old Magnolia with really no one left to help her out in Tennessee. But then she meets a strange man that would like her to mimic the lost loved ones of people willing to pay for an odd sort of closure. It's probably her ability to imagine herself as the smallest things in fairytales that enable her to channel the missing women convincingly. Side character Eden is a highlight -- helping Magnolia transform her face into the missing women, as Eden herself uses makeup to look like a different celebrity every day. This is clearly not something healthy for Magnolia to be doing -- to feel less small. There is really something that can elevate a book (that also must be difficult to accomplish for a writer) when a reader is 100% on Magnolia's side from page one, even if Magnolia sometimes doesn't make the best choices. I don't want to outright compare this book to Toni Morrison, as nothing really should be, but there IS a Toni Morrison epigraph at the beginning (plus, a few others.) So the Toni Morrison influence is there, but Brashears is no imitator. I do enjoy that even though this book was dark, it did manage to maintain some magic and I guess you could say the same about fairytales. I would set this on the shelf beside 'Nightcrawling' by Leila Mottley -- both books featuring young women trying to survive in tough situations. Plus, there is a Raven Leilani blurb for this book, and I SUPPOSE this book is worthy of sitting beside the lovely 'Luster'. I wish Magnolia, Edie and Kiara could be friends supporting each other. But AH, some books I am just extremely glad I actually picked up, out of the billions of books out there, and this is one of them. I can't wait to see what Brashears writes next.
Hard to classify ... It's an incredible debut that announces the arrival of a unique voice in contemporary fiction ... House of Cotton is a bizarre, uncomfortable read in the best way possible. Brashears delves deep into what it means to be a young, broke woman of color in a world in which predatory men are at your doorstep, in the streets, and even at church. She's not always likable, but real people rarely are ... This is a novel that refuses to obey the rules of any one genre, and that, complicated as it might be for some, is one of the best things about it ... Peculiar and slightly surreal, but also dazzling, full of surprises, and told with a voice that's unpredictable and, more importantly, that lingers. Darkness can have slices of beauty at its core, and Brashears has a talent for pointing out that beauty, while its submerged in grit and grief. Fans of brave fiction would be remiss to skip this one. It’s a lot, and occasionally it feels as if the novel meanders — story lines emerge and then fall away, superseded by yet another narrative development. But it’s a testament to Brashears’s enchanting storytelling that the deluge of plot doesn’t overwhelm the book. Just the opposite: The cascading waves of unsettling encounters and unexplained phenomena imbue it with the thrilling energy of possibility.... There is a word commonly used to describe books like this: gritty. Fair enough. “House of Cotton” is unafraid to peer at the unsavory minutiae of getting by. But for this novel, I’d add a few other labels too: magnetic, singular and completely unforgettable. Brashears has written a lush, pictorial, and often steamy novel with an indelible heroine. Coupling classic gothic elements with a realistic portrayal of the issues facing a young, poor, Black woman with few options, the novel’s many strengths culminate in a powerful and original story that will appeal to a variety of readers across fiction genres. A debut novel about generational trauma, grief, and the enduring violence of White supremacy.... This is a messy text with a weird flow, and much of the detail that Brashears provides makes it more difficult—rather than easier—to suspend disbelief unless we understand at the very beginning that this is closer to horror than realist fiction. Perhaps the best way to read this is as a gothic novel in which a surfeit of symbolism offers up a superabundance of meaning. A lyrical fever dream of a novel. Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
"Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn't have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, by her predatory landlord, by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around. He offers her a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral home. Magnolia accepts. But despite things looking up, Magnolia's problems fatten along with her wallet. When Cotton's requests become increasingly weird, Magnolia discovers there's a lot more at stake than just her rent. Sharp as a belted knife, this sly social commentary cuts straight to the bone, revealing the aftermath of the American plantation and what it means to be poor, Black, and a woman in the God fearing south. Impossible to put down, Brashears's House of Cotton will keep you mesmerized until the very last page"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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