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Articles by Tyriek White
Les Fantômes de Brooklyn
Onglets livre « Chaque quartier construit son propre folklore, existe selon ses propres mythes, crée un monde de héros et de méchants. » À l’est de Manhattan, les gratte-ciel laissent la place aux usines, entrepôts et HLM de Brooklyn. Dans ce quartier populaire, Audrey, une grand-mère, risque l’expulsion de son appartement et Key, sa fille, vient en aide aux femmes précaires tandis que Colly, son petit-fils adolescent, est tiraillé entre tendresse et rejet envers sa communauté.
from We Are a Haunting
Tyriek White is the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winner for his debut We Are a Haunting. Set in East New York, Brooklyn, the novel follows Colly, a teen growing up in public housing who is left under the guardianship of an absent father when his mother dies from cancer. But since Key and Colly possess the same supernatural ability to see and communicate with the dead, they continue their bond even after her death.
Elise Hu among the authors at Houston book events this week
Author Elise Hu. Photo: Courtesy photo This week, Brazos Bookstore talks to NPR's Elise Hu and Murder By The Book hosts Norwegian musician and author Jo Nesbø. TUESDAY Rani Puranik: Author and oil and gas CEO will discuss her leadership book, “Letters to My Daughters.” 6:30 p.m., Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet; 713-523-0701, brazosbookstore.com Author Rani Puranik.
Tyriek White’s Playlist for His Novel “We Are a Haunting”
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Tyriek White’s novel We Are a Haunting is a breathtaking debut, a book that ambitiously and inventively explores generational trauma.
We Are a Haunting: A Novel|Hardcover
WINNER, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Longlist A Best Book of 2023 - NPR, Electric Literature, Largehearted Boy, Black Girl Nerds, Le Noir Auteur "An absolute triumph." —Michael Schaub, NPR "Astonishing." —Kiese Laymon, MacArthur Fellow and author of Long Division "What a beautiful, haunting and hued narrative of American living.
Dances by Nicole Cuffy
Nicole Cuffy. One World, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-49815-6 An African American ballerina battles racial profiling and personal demons in Cuffy’s brilliant debut novel (after the chapbook Atlas of the Body). At 22, Celine “Cece” Cordell gets the biggest break of her career when she’s promoted to principal dancer at the New York City Ballet. Surrounded by white dancers, she is immediately considered a trailblazer by the media.
You Are Here
Karin Lin-Greenberg. Counterpoint, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-64009-543-4 Lin-Greenberg’s exceptional debut novel (after the collection Vanished) explores a complex web of relationships at a fading mall in Albany, N.Y. Among the people drawn together by the mall are Tina Huang, the last remaining stylist at a struggling hair salon, and Ro Goodson, an 89-year-old white woman who is Tina’s only regular customer, and who Tina believes comes in because she’s lonely.
The Nursery
Szilvia Molnar. Pantheon, $26 (208p) ISBN 978-0-593-31684-9 Molnar’s entrancing debut captures the volatile inner life of a woman with postpartum depression. The narrator, a literary translator, feels isolated while caring for her baby girl, Button, and, as her days blur into each other, she has a hard time seeing herself as more than a “milk bar,” and her mind frequently reverts to thoughts of hurting Button.
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