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Jump at the Sun: A Novel

Autor Kim McLarin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iul 2007
After a series of stressful personal transitions, Grace Jefferson finds herself in a new house in a new city and in a new career for which she feels dangerously unsuited: a stay-at-home mom. An educated and accomplished modern woman, a child of the Civil Rights dream, she is caught between the only two models of mothering she has ever known—a sharecropping grandmother who abandoned her children to save herself and a mother who sacrificed all to save her kids—as she struggles to find a middle ground. But as the days pass and the pressures mount, Grace begins to catch herself in small acts of abandonment that she fears may foretell a future she is powerless to prevent . . . or perhaps secretly seeks.
Jump at the Sun is a novel about an isolating suburban life and the continuing legacy of slavery, about generational change and the price of living the dream for which our parents fought. In her bold and fearless voice, Kim McLarin explores both the highs and lows of being a mother, and how breaking the cycle of suffocation and regret, while infuriatingly difficult, is absolutely necessary.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780060528508
ISBN-10: 0060528508
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:1 Reprint
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial

Recenzii

“readers will find Grace’s desperation heartfelt and her journey absorbing, as told in vigorous, luxuriant prose.” — Washington Post
Readers will find Grace’s desperation heartfelt and her journey absorbing, as told in vigorous, luxuriant prose. — Washington Post
The book moves like a white-water rafting trip, zipping along through treacherous waters. McLarin’s muscular writing spares nobody — Philadelphia Inquirer

Notă biografică

Kim McLarin is respected as "one of the bravest novelists in recent times" (Philadelphia Tribune). She is a former journalist for the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Associated Press, among other news organizations. The author of the critically acclaimed novels Taming It Down and Meeting of the Waters, McLarin is currently writer-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.