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Moon and the Mars

Title
  1. Moon and the Mars / Kia Corthron.
Published by
  1. New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2021]
Author
  1. Corthron, Kia

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Description
  1. 585 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
  1. ""Rarely does one encounter a book that can so profoundly change a reader. Moon and the Mars is that book. Corthron, a true heir to James Baldwin, presents a startlingly original exposure of the complex roots of American racism and classism as well as a sweeping exploration of love in all its myriad forms. The best work of fiction I have read in many years." -Naomi Wallace, MacArthur "Genius" Playwriting Fellow and author of One Flea Spare Set in the impoverished Five Points district of New York City in the years 1857-1863, we experience neighborhood life through the eyes of Theo from childhood to adolescence, an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandmothers. Throughout her formative years, Theo witnesses everything from the creation of tap dance to P.T. Barnum's sensationalist museum to the draft riots that tear NYC asunder, amidst the daily maelstrom of Five Points work, hardship, and camaraderie. Meanwhile, white America's attitudes towards people of color and slavery are shifting-painfully, transformationally-as the nation divides and marches to war. Corthron's first novel, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, won the coveted First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction in 2016. It was championed by Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Angela Y. Davis, among many others, and received rave reviews in The New York Times Book Review, where it was an Editor's Choice, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere"--
Subject
  1. 1849-1877
  2. African Americans > Fiction
  3. African Americans
  4. United States > History > 1849-1877 > Fiction
  5. United States
Genre/Form
  1. Fiction.
  2. Historical fiction.
  3. History.
Call number
  1. Sc E 21-1150
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-585).
Author
  1. Corthron, Kia, author.
Title
  1. Moon and the Mars / Kia Corthron.
Publisher
  1. New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2021]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-585).
Local note
  1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Chronological term
  1. 1849-1877
Local subject
  1. Black author.
LCCN
  1. 2021011365
ISBN
  1. 9781644211038 hardcover
  2. 1644211033 hardcover
Research call number
  1. Sc E 21-1150
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