The house of broken bricks : a novel / Fiona Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Fiona, 1975- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--England--Fiction.

Black people.

Jamaicans--England--Fiction.

Jamaicans.

Multiracial people--Fiction.

Multiracial people.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Family secrets--Fiction.

Family secrets.

West Country (England)--Fiction.

West Country (England).

African Americans.

african american.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Magic realist fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

338 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First US edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2024.

Summary:

"Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider and no one looks like her. While Jess and Richard settle into the village rhythm, the dramatic arrival of their twin sons recasts the family dynamic, stirring up complicated feelings and questions of belonging. Full of surprises, deeply attuned to the rhythms of language and nature, this lyrical novel with a magical realist strand captures the pain and beauty of life and death as well as the transformational power of changing seasons"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Originally published in Great Britain in 2024 by Faber & Faber Ltd." -- Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Williams, Fiona, 1975- House of broken bricks

ISBN:

9781250896766

1250896762

OCLC:

1375541412