Monster in the middle / Tiphanie Yanique.
"This novel maps the romantic history and emotional inheritance of one couple newly in love. Monster in the Middle moves from the U.S. to the Virgin Islands to Ghana and back again, to show how one couple's romance is influenced by the family lore and love stories that preceded their own pairing"-- Provided by publisher.
When Fly and Stela meet in 21st Century New York City, it seems like fate. He is a Black American musician from a mixed-religious background who knows all about heartbreak. She is a Catholic science teacher from the Caribbean, looking for lasting love. Their story moves across decades, from the U.S. to the Virgin Islands to Ghana and back again, to show how one couple's romance is intrinsically influenced by the family lore and love stories that preceded their own pairing. What challenges and traumas must this new couple inherit, what hopes and ambitions will keep them moving forward? -- adapted from jacket
Record details
- ISBN: 9781594633607
- ISBN: 1594633606
- ISBN: 9780593421185
- ISBN: 0593421183
- Physical Description: 267 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Love letter -- Fly. Oakland Gomorrah ; Extermination ; God's caravan ; Other women ; The special world -- Stela. The living sea ; Monster in the middle ; Belly of the whale ; Experimental studies ; Rooted -- Stela and fly. Sestina ; Meeting the monster. |
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Genre: | Romance fiction. Love stories. Romance fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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Burlington Public Library | F YANIQUE | 39851001630046 | Adult Fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |
Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the award-winning novel Land of Love and Drowning, as well as the short story collection How to Escape from a Leper Colony. Winner of the 2014 Center for Fiction First Novel award, and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Award and a Fulbright scholarship. Her short fiction has been published in The New Yorker and anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2020. Originally from the Virgin Islands, she now lives in Atlanta, where she is a professor at Emory University.