Aquaboogie A Novel in Stories edition by Susan Straight Literature Fiction eBooks
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Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, this “rich collection” of linked stories “demands to be read and reread” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Nestled among the palm trees and pig farms of Southern California, the sleepy city of Rio Seco might be confused for an abandoned backlot to the nearby glitz of Hollywood. But it’s home to a vibrant community of African Americans, young and old, following their dreams as they struggle to make ends meet.
A young man fights to nurture his artistic calling, even as his family teases him for his “sissy hands.” His elderly aunt must find a new home as developers push to alter the city’s landscape. A young boy tries to escape the same fate as his crack-addicted brother. And a humiliated, indignant young woman must contend with her husband’s latest girlfriend. These and other stories weave together the lives of a timeless community with moments of beauty, defeat, and grace.
“A writer whose love for her characters infuses her work,”Susan Straight’s award-winning debut remains a relevant testament to lives too often pushed aside (The New York Times Book Review). In the praise of Joyce Carol Oates, “there is no new, emerging voice of the past decade more exciting, more surprising, and more richly and subtly human than [Straight].”
Nestled among the palm trees and pig farms of Southern California, the sleepy city of Rio Seco might be confused for an abandoned backlot to the nearby glitz of Hollywood. But it’s home to a vibrant community of African Americans, young and old, following their dreams as they struggle to make ends meet.
A young man fights to nurture his artistic calling, even as his family teases him for his “sissy hands.” His elderly aunt must find a new home as developers push to alter the city’s landscape. A young boy tries to escape the same fate as his crack-addicted brother. And a humiliated, indignant young woman must contend with her husband’s latest girlfriend. These and other stories weave together the lives of a timeless community with moments of beauty, defeat, and grace.
“A writer whose love for her characters infuses her work,”Susan Straight’s award-winning debut remains a relevant testament to lives too often pushed aside (The New York Times Book Review). In the praise of Joyce Carol Oates, “there is no new, emerging voice of the past decade more exciting, more surprising, and more richly and subtly human than [Straight].”
Aquaboogie A Novel in Stories edition by Susan Straight Literature Fiction eBooks
Susan Straight grabs your hand and pulls you right into her Rio Seco world with this novel. It can be a challenging read, since she introduces you not through a sustained narrative of one character--how could she with a community so rich and varied? Instead, she lets you see through the eyes of various souls who live this world. This book is sometimes called a short-story collection, and it can be read and appreciated that way, but as I was reading the book I kept thinking of William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying," where an experience is related through the voices of the different family members chapter by chapter. In Aquaboogie, we get different voices telling different experiences that, woven together, immerse us in a rich and real world we just don't get to see and know otherwise.Product details
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Aquaboogie A Novel in Stories edition by Susan Straight Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Mystified by her reputation after reading the book. I found it a chore to read. But that is only my opinion and I ma not an English professor or a writer.
If I could, I'd give this book 3.5 stars. Susan Straight is a skilled writer - I ordered this book after reading a short story in "The Sun" magazine. I believe this was her first book and it is a clever concept. She links characters, across three generations, in short stories who are related by blood or friendship, all black. I felt pretty ignorant as I learned about institutionalized racism and how it shapes people, their decisions and who they become. It was not always inspired reading, but there are some gems in her words and characters. It is a good book.
Susan Straight has a unique perspective on the Southern California desert city experience and the marginalized people who make up her aspiring and/or broken characters and their families and friends. These short stories, some of which introduce later characters, are a good introduction to her fine sense of place and careful, caring drawing of her people. She is an author I read over and over and I always look forward to her latest.
Susan Straight grabs your hand and pulls you right into her Rio Seco world with this novel. It can be a challenging read, since she introduces you not through a sustained narrative of one character--how could she with a community so rich and varied? Instead, she lets you see through the eyes of various souls who live this world. This book is sometimes called a short-story collection, and it can be read and appreciated that way, but as I was reading the book I kept thinking of William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying," where an experience is related through the voices of the different family members chapter by chapter. In Aquaboogie, we get different voices telling different experiences that, woven together, immerse us in a rich and real world we just don't get to see and know otherwise.
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