Gayl Jones
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Language
English
Description
"Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her. The three form a quirky triangle on the white-washed island"--
2) Palmares
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
"The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil. "Palmares" recounts the journey of Almeyda, a Black slave girl who comes of age on Portuguese plantations and escapes to a fugitive slave settlement called Palmares. Following its destruction, Almeyda embarks on a journey across colonial Brazil to find her husband lost in battle. Her story brings to life a world impacted by greed, conquest,...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing, and Palmares"--
This new collection of short fiction is only the second in the author's rich career and one that displays her strengths in the genre in many facets. Opening with two novella-length works, "Butter" and "Sophia," this collection features Jones's legendary talents in a range of settings...
4) Corregidora
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Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
The true harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early twentieth century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery.
5) Mosquito
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Set in a south Texas border town, Mosquito is the story of an African-American truck driver's accidental yet growing involvement in "the new underground railroad," a sanctuary movement for Mexican immigrants."--
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Two epic poems, the love songs of fugitive slaves, set in 17th-century Brazil"--
Jones brings together two epic poems set in seventeenth-century Brazil. They are narratives in verse of the former slave Almeyda, and her warrior husband Anninho. Separated as they flee from the Portuguese destruction of the last fugitive slave enclave in Brazil, a place known as Palmares, Almeyda's passionate lament is combined with his response. Their story is of...
7) The healing
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, traveling by bus to small towns, converting skeptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a minor rock star's manager, and before that a beautician. She's had a fling with her rock star's ex-husband and an Afro-German horse dealer; along the way she's somehow lost her own husband, a medical anthropologist now traveling with a medicine woman in Africa. Harlan tells her story from the end backwards,...
9) Eva's man
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Imprisoned for the bizarre murder of her lover, Eva Medina Canada recalls a life tormented by sexual abuse and emotional violence. Eva's Man is Gayl Jones's second novel. Imprisoned for the brutal and bizarre murder of her lover, Eva Medina Canada recalls a life tormented by sexual abuse and emotional violence. Eva reveals her own pain and traumas through fragmented, often anachronistic memories, but she rarely describes the violence she commits...