| Brother and the Dancer Contributor(s): Norris, Keenan (Author) |
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ISBN: 159714245X ISBN-13: 9781597142458 Publisher: Heyday Books OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | African American - General - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2013005026 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8" (0.75 lbs) 266 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Locality - Riverside-San Bernardino, CA - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the 2012 James D. Houston Award, Keenan Norris's first novel is a beautiful, gritty, coming-of-age tale about two young African Americans in the San Bernardino Valley--a story of exceptional power, lyricism, and depth. Erycha and Touissant live only a few miles apart in the city of Highland, but their worlds are starkly separated by the lines of class, violence, and history. In alternating chapters that touch and intertwine only briefly, Brother and the Dancer follows their adolescence and young adulthood on two sides of the city, the luminous San Bernardino range casting its hot shade over their separate tales in an unflinching vision of black life in Southern California. |