· THESE GHOSTS ARE FAMILY. by Maisy Card ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 3, Generations of a Jamaican family grapple with the legacy of slavery and secrets. “Perhaps, a life does not belong exclusively to one person,” thinks a character in Card’s debut novel, a rich and layered story about several generations of a Jamaican family. Secrets, Card shows, are part of what bind us bltadwin.ru: Maisy Card. · The following is an excerpt from Maisy Card's book These Ghosts Are Family, a transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations. Maisy Card holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College and is a public librarian. Her writing has appeared in Lenny Letter, School Library Journal, Agni, Sycamore Review, Liars’ League Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. These Ghosts Are Family explores the ways each character wrestles with their ghosts and struggles to forge independent identities outside of the family and their trauma. The result is an engrossing portrait of a family and individuals caught in the sweep of history, slavery, migration, and the more personal dramas of infidelity, lost love, and regret.
Listen to These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Card with a free trial.\nListen to bestselling audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A "rich, ambitious debut novel" (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over. These Ghosts Are Family | PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A "rich, ambitious debut novel" (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Maisy Card is a wonderful arrival for Caribbean literature." —Alexia Arthurs, author of How to Love a Jamaican "These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Card will enchant readers completely with a fascinating cast of characters, each more bewitching than the last. This book is destined to become 's most beloved debut novel.".
Maisy Card is a writer and a librarian. Her debut novel, These Ghosts are Family, won an American Book Award, the OCM Bocas Prize in Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, The Center For Fiction's First Novel Prize, and an Audie Award in the Literary Fiction Classics category. Maisy Card is a wonderful arrival for Caribbean literature.” —Alexia Arthurs, author of How to Love a Jamaican “These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Card will enchant readers completely with a fascinating cast of characters, each more bewitching than the last. This book is destined to become ’s most beloved debut novel.”. The following is an excerpt from Maisy Card's book These Ghosts Are Family, a transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations. Maisy Card holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College and is a public librarian. Her writing has appeared in Lenny Letter, School Library Journal, Agni, Sycamore Review, Liars’ League NYC, and Ampersand Review.
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