Naomi K. Lewis

Cricket in a Fist

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One night, Agatha Winter's phone rings. Jasmine, her 13-year-old sister, has run away from home and needs to be picked up at the bus terminal. It's the anniversary of their mother's accident and subsequent split from the family. Jasmine is determined to exact revenge. Their mother, now a flashy self-help guru under a new moniker, preaches willing amnesia: liberation by deliberately forgetting and disowning the past. But willing amnesia is no innovation: it runs in the family. The girls' grandmother and great-grandmother, both Holocaust survivors, have found their own superficially innocuous yet fiercely destructive ways to fend off memory. In… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-86492-558-9
EAN: 9780864925589
Produktnummer: 31832266
Verlag: Goose Lane Editions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 268 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'141 KB

Über den Autor

Naomi K. Lewis was born in England, lived in Washington DC, and grew up in Ottawa. Her stories have been published in the Fiddlehead, the New Quarterly, the Antigonish Review, Prairie Fire, and Grain. The Guiding Light, a chapter of the novel that began as a story, won the Fiddlehead Fiction Prize in 2007. Lewis now lives in Edmonton. Cricket in a Fist is her first book-length work of fiction.