You Were Watching from the Sand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamy, Juliana.

Standardized Title:

You were watching from the sand (Compilation)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haitians.

Haitians--Fiction.

Genre:

Nouvelles.

Short stories.

Short stories

Fiction

short stories.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pasadena : Red Hen Press, 2023.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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!

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781636281063

1636281060

OCLC:

1378310229