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She's Gone |
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| by: Kwame Dawes ISBN:
1933354186
ISBN-13: 9781933354187
Format: Paperback, 350pp
Publisher: Akashic Books
List Price: $15.95
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Price: $11.95 |
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A prominent Jamaican reggae singer falls in love with an African American
woman while on tour in South Carolina. The two struggle to forge a relationship
across a cultural and psychological divide in a story that spans from Jamaica
to South Carolina to New York City.
Kwame Dawes is an award-winning Ghanian-born Jamaican author of several books
of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. He teaches at the University of South
Carolina, where he is distinguished poet in residence and director of the USC
Arts Institute and the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. Dawes is the
programmer for the annual Jamaican Calabash International Literary Festival. |
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| ABOUT THE AUTHOR: |
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| Kwame Dawes is an award-winning Ghanian-born
Jamaican author of several books of poetry, nonfiction, and
fiction. He teaches at the University of South Carolina,
where he is Distinguished Poet in Residence and director of
the USC Arts Institute and the SC Poetry Initiative. Dawes
is the programmer for the annual Jamaican Calabash
International Literary Festival. |
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| REVIEWS: |
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"Dawes offers vibrant characters and
locales in this diaspora of black culture and strong emotions,
bordering the fine line between love and madness between two
troubled people."
--Booklist
"A masterly tour de force, the language here is elegant,
seductive, and tender, the irony is sharp, the humor subverts,
and hope shines through. Kwame Dawes is always reinventing the
Caribbean narrative, fusing myth, legend, reggae, and his own
sense of style to create a powerful and tremendous art. He never
ceases to amaze."
--Chris Abani, author of Becoming Abigail and
GraceLand
"This striking debut novel is from the heart and about the
heart. The characters are true, the landscapes exquisite, and
the relationships dynamic, insightful, and complex. Read it and
be transported."
--Bernardine Evaristo, author of The Emperor's Babe
"She's Gone is the kind of debut novel that stuns its readers
into silence. Set in the American South, New York City, and the
Caribbean, this probing novel takes us on a risky expedition to
the swampy bottom of the human psyche, a murky world where
dreams of love, escape, and artistic freedom swim dangerously
close to heartbreak, alienation, and madness . . . She's Gone is
a work of incandescent genius."
--Colin Channer, best-selling author of Waiting in Vain
and Passing Through
"She's Gone explores the complex dynamics of cross-cultural
relationships with deep insight and compassion. The two
protagonists--Kofi, a Jamaican musician, and Keisha, an
African-American social researcher--are gorgeously imagined. In
their commitment to searching out the truth, both within
themselves and in the world around them, despite their human
frailties, Kwame Dawes' lyrical prose explores the true meaning
of courage."
--Kaylie Jones, author of A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries |
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