Nightcrawling
Leila Mottley
| Издательство: | McClelland & Stewart |
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30 июля 2023 г. 08:19
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Очень тревожащая книга: в жизни героини всё очень несправедливо. Это при том, что живёт она не где-то в стране третьего мира, где правит коррупция и всё такое, а в самом что ни на есть сердце свободной Америки. Отец героини,…
ISBN: 9780771050435
Год издания: 2023
ISBN10: 0771050437
288 pages
PATRICIA NICOL, THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK)
"... striking ... socially incendiary ... This procedural plot provides narrative pull and a grim moral urgency. The captivating, distinctively voiced Kiara is a young black American who can shoot hoops and skateboard, but her literary antecedents are Zola's Thérèse Raquin, Victor Hugo's Fantine and Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth ... There are occasions when Mottley's fluid, instinctive writing soars too high and becomes overwrought, or when her story veers a little close to melodrama. Yet mostly this feels like a remarkable debut, one that holds an illuminating if unflattering mirror to modern America ... It is exciting to wonder what might lie ahead for this writer, who turns 20 the same week she becomes a published novelist."
"Author Leila Mottley takes readers deep into the heart of this dark world, where Kiara's coming-of-age story unfolds like a gaping wound left to fester. The narrative is difficult to read and yet so compelling that one cannot put it down ... Through Kiara, Mottley gives voice to countless Black women and girls who remain invisible, vulnerable, and dehumanized by a system that deems them disposable ... Kiara's voice is strong and unforgettable ... Trust Mottley not to leave Kiara—and us—in the depths of gloom ... A testimony to hope, resilience, and love."
