On a Woman's Madness Roemer Astrid
On a Woman's Madness Roemer Astrid FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDOn a Woman's Madness tells the story of Noenka, a courageous Black woman trying to live a life of her own choosing.…
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On a Woman's Madness Roemer Astrid
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDOn a Woman's Madness tells the story of Noenka, a courageous Black woman trying to live a life of her own choosing. Unsettled and unsupported, her life in this new place is illuminated by romance and new freedoms, but also forever haunted by her past and society's expectations.Strikingly translated by Lucy Scott, Astrid Roemer's classic queer novel is a tentpole of European and post-colonial literature. When her abusive husband of just nine days refuses her request for divorce, Noenka flees her hometown in Suriname, on South America's tropical northeastern coast, for the capital city of Paramaribo.
Roemer, the first Surinamese winner of the And amid tales of plantation-dwelling snakes, rare orchids, and star-crossed lovers, it is also a blistering meditation on the cruelties we inflict on those who disobey.
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