You were watching from the sand : short stories
Call Number
- FICTION LAMY (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2023]
Physical Description
155 pages ; 21 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
"Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and children who find their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite back at the bizarre with their own oddities. In 'belly,' a young woman abandoned by her only living relative makes a person from the mud beside her backyard creek. In 'We Feel it in Punta Cana,' a domestic child servant in the Dominican Republic tours through his own lush imagination to make his material conditions more bearable. In 'The Oldest Sensation is Anger,' a teenager invites a same-aged family friend into her apartment and uncovers a spate of disturbing secrets about her. Written in a mixture of high lyricism, absurdist comedy, and Haitian cultural witticisms, this is a collection whose dynamism matches that of its characters at every beat and turn"--
Contents
- You were watching from the sand
- The Oldest sensation is anger
- Sylpha
- Manticore
- We feel it in Punta Cana
- Eli
- Open house
- Wynwood
- Muscle memory
- July in New Orleans
- belly
- mermaids!