When Trying to Return Home: Stories McCauley Jennifer Maritza
When Trying to Return Home: Stories McCauley Jennifer Maritza A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and…
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When Trying to Return Home: Stories McCauley Jennifer Maritza
A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond--and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own termsProfoundly moving and powerful, the stories in When Trying to Return Home dig deeply into the question of belonging. A man, his wife, and his mistress each confront the borders separating love and hate, obligation and longing, on the eve of a flight to San Juan. A young woman is torn between overwhelming love for her mother and the need to break free from her damaging influence during a desperate and disastrous attempt to rescue her brother from foster care.
And in 1930s Louisiana, a woman attempting to find a place A college student grapples with the space between chivalry and machismo in a tense encounter involving a nun.
Trying Not to Try
The Return Home
Return to Prosperity
Im Trying to Love Spiders
Return to Zero
Return to Inanna
Return to Sable
Return to Rome