Kind of Kin - Couverture rigide

Askew, Rilla

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1410459810 ISBN 13 : 9781410459817

Editeur : Thorndike Pr, 2013

Synopsis

When her father is tossed in jail for hiding a barn full of Mexicans, her 10-year-old nephew disappears, and her son comes home, bringing a world of trouble with him, Sweet is driven to desperate actions to fix things, which tests her family, friends and neighbors in unexpected ways. (general fiction).

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Askew's solid prose serves the pulse of the story... and make no mistake, this story has a furious pulse... she paces her story masterfully. The reader turns the pages with a mounting sense of anticipation and dread. --New York Times Book Review

Rilla Askew's raucous, ebullient novel... gets to the very heart of what it means to be part of the family of man... Here, immigration has a human, heartbreaking face... Askew's characters are both larger than life and deeply, complicatedly human... powerful and moving --San Francisco Chronicle

Rilla Askew's wonderful novel shows us why fiction is more essential than ever. Her unflinching portrait of a family whipsawed from within and without is a story for our time, the story of a struggle to find some measure of peace and certainty in an unhinged world. It's proof of Askew's flat-out genius that Kind of Kin is merciless, yet strangely full of mercy - read it through to the last page and you'll see what I mean.-- Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Rich, rewarding, and humane --Publishers Weekly
Kind of Kin is a kind of miracle. The character Sweet is an American original, doing her best to hold the family she loves together while trying not to fall apart. A winner. --Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife
A novel as ambitious as it is complex: Askew deftly weaves multiple points of view into a narrative that's spacious, messy and, above all, honest... [it's] Askew's lush, nuanced characterization and expert feel for dramatic tension that make this novel soar --Kansas City Star

Quatrième de couverture

With the passing of a new state law, it becomes a felony to harbor an undocumented immigrant in Oklahoma. So when Robert John Brown, a churchgoing family man and respected community member, is caught hiding a barnful of migrant workers with no papers, he is arrested and sent to prison. Meanwhile, his ten-year-old grandson Dustin tries to help the sole escapee of the raid reunite with his family, and his granddaughter, Misty, is struggling to raise her daughter alone after her husband, an illegal immigrant himself, has been deported. Then there's Brown's daughter Sweet, who finds her life unraveling: her father is refusing to speak in court to defend himself, her nephew is missing, her niece is in need of shelter, and the stress of it all is destroying her marriage.

Rilla Askew's brilliant, hilarious, and heartfelt novel follows a handful of complicated lawmakers and lawbreakers as workers are exiled, friends turn informers, and families are torn apart in a statewide exodus of Hispanics. In the end, Kind of Kin reveals how an ad hoc family, and an entire town, will unite to do anything necessary to protect its own.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thorndike Pr
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1410459810
• ISBN 13: 9781410459817
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 627
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible