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Cargando... How Are You Going to Save Yourselfpor J. M. Holmes
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Fiction.
African American Fiction.
Short Stories.
HTML:Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (Kirkus, starred review). Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio as they each grapple with the complexity of their family histories, the newfound power of sex and drugs, and the ferocity of their desires. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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As a African-American literature student, I wanted to connect with the story layout and the grief of each character. Of all characters presented, I found the most commonality with Gio.
Gio seems sequestered in-between family and friends, while grieving over the lack of connection with those he left behind to save himself. After Gio saves himself, he still has to fight the demons and triggers from a past that has left immovable scars.
I found myself re-reading and revising some portions of text aloud to discern the author's messaging. The rhythm and meter of each prose piece was disjointed. And these structural problems have me wondering what age group this novel targets. Many hip-hop metaphors are scattered in places that seem inappropriate. Sometimes they work to set the scene and push forward culture, other times they make other parts of an otherwise fantastic story, esoteric.
Had the character plots been slightly more nuanced, the story line might have had more power.
I'm interested to know if some readers were confused about how story format should have been... Were we dealing with vignettes or essays?
Hopefully, his next effort is a bit more evocative. I wanted the book to be far better than it was. ( )