Confrontations : a novel
Book |
Bloomsbury Publishing,
New York :
2024.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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About
"Salomé Atabong is the sixteen-year-old daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother, living in the Netherlands. She arrives at a juvenile detention center to start a six-month sentence for a violent crime, that she did commit but does not regret. Expected to visit with a racist psychologist and perform her apologies, Salomé refuses to atone. But even if Salomé could get home, it would be no refuge: her father has recently been diagnosed with liver cancer, and her elder sister Miriam's main preoccupation is to get out of the village as soon as possible. After months in the prison system, she realizes she must come to terms with the real reason behind her rage. Raw and unsentimental yet lyrical, Confrontations captures the paradoxical demands society makes on Black women, the way communities, schools, and the prison system perpetuate racism, and the cost of Black female defiance."--Book jacket flap.
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Details
- ISBN: 9781639730919
- Physical Description: 181 pages ; 22 cm.print
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2023
- General Note: In English, translated from the Dutch.Translation ©2023 Suzanne Heukensfeldt Jansen."First published in Dutch by Lebowski, 2020, Netherlands. First published in Great Britain in 2023 by Serpent's Tail, an imprint of Profile Books Ltd"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.