Categorie archieven: Amerikaanse schrijfster

Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Familiegeschiedenis, Familieroman, Iran

Sanam Mahloudji – The Persians

Sanam Mahloudji The Persians review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de eerste roman van de Iraans-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 30 januari 2025 verschijnt bij 4th Estate de debuutroman van Sanam Mahloudji. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. De Nederlandse vertaling De Perzen verschijnt op 29 september 2025 bij uitgeverij Ambo | Anthos.

Sanam Mahloudji The Persians review, recensie en informatie

  • “Funny and profound … A gloriously engrossing debut.” (Tash Aw)
  • “Glorious … Darkly funny, richly satisfying.” (Sarah Winman)
  • “Filled with heartbreak, humour, and so much love.” (Vanessa Chan)

Sanam Mahloudji The Persians

The Persians

  • Auteur: Sanam Mahloudji (Iran, Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: 4th Estate
  • Verschijnt: 30 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de debuutroman van Sanam Mahloudji

Meet the women of the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies.

First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She lives alone in a shabby apartment except when she is visited by Niaz, her young, Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter, who takes her partying with a side of purpose, and somehow manages to survive. Across the ocean in America, Elizabeth’s daughters have built new lives for themselves. There’s Shirin, a charismatic and flamboyantly high-flying event planner in Houston, who considers herself the family’s future; and Seema, a dreamy idealist turned bored housewife languishing in the privileged hills of Los Angeles. And then there’s the other granddaughter, Bita, a disillusioned law student spending her days in New York trying to find deeper meaning by giving away her worldly belongings.

When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up being bailed out of jail by Bita, the family’s brittle upper class veneer is cracked wide open. Soon, Shirin must embark upon a grand quest to restore the family name to its former glory. But what does that mean in a country where the Valiats never even mattered? Can they bring their old inheritance into a new tomorrow together?

Spanning from 1940s Iran into a splintered 2000s, these five women are pulled apart and brought together by revolutions personal and political. The Persians is a darkly funny, deeply moving and profoundly searching portrait of a unique family in crisis. Here is their past, their present and a possible new future for them all.

Sanam Mahloudji De Perzen recensieSanam Mahloudji (Verenigde Staten) – De Perzen
familieroman
Uitgever: Ambo | Anthos
Verschijnt: 29 september 2025

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Historische Roman, New York

Gemma Tizzard – Grace of the Empire State

Gemma Tizzard Grace of the Empire State recensie, review en informatie historische roman over New York tijdens de Great Depression. Op 28 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Gallery Books de debuutroman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Gemma Tizzard. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Gemma Tizzard Grace of the Empire State recensie, review en informatie

  • “Set to the desperate backdrop of the Great Depression, Grace of the Empire State is a thoroughly enjoyable story of family, sacrifice and first love that reminds us that true strength comes from within–and that women have been quietly saving the day since the dawn of time.” (Kristin Harmel)
  • “An inspiring story… With engaging characters and a vibrant depiction of Manhattan–its glittering possibility and its stark heartbreak–Tizzard’s novel soars like its namesake building, and moves along as elegantly as its nimble, determined heroine.” (Shelf Awareness)

Gemma Tizzard Grace of the Empire State

Grace of the Empire State

  • Auteur: Gemma Tizzard (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse historische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Gallery Books
  • Verschijnt: 28 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 24,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de historische roman over New York tijdens de Great Depression

In this breathtaking debut novel, a daring dancer must take her twin brother’s place as a riveter high atop the in-progress Empire State Building to save her family from ruin.

After the death of their father, it’s up to Grace O’Connell and her twin brother Patrick to support their family as the Great Depression takes its toll on New York City. When Grace is laid off from her dancing gig and Patrick is injured at work on the construction of the Empire State Building, desperation leaves them only one solution: Grace must disguise herself as Patrick and take his place on the half-built skyscraper.

She soon proves herself as capable as any man on the steel, and her affection for the loyal men around her—especially Italian immigrant Joe—grows by the day. But when a terrible accident happens high above the city and Grace is the only one capable of saving her stranded colleague, she must make a split-second decision to risk everything or live with her conscience forever.

Set against the backdrop of a city at a crossroads, this electrifying story is full of heart and hope, family and friendship, and the sacrifices we make for those we love.

Gemma Tizzard has a degree in American studies, and a particular interest in untold women’s stories. She has written rom-coms and was longlisted for the 2021 and 2022 Comedy Women in Print (CWIP) Unpublished Novel Prize. Grace of the Empire State is her debut novel.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Memoir, Muziek

Lola Kirke – Wild West Village

Lola Kirke Wild West Village recensie, review en informatie memoir in essays van de in Londen geboren Amerikaanse actrice en singer songwriter. Op 28 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het memoir-in-essays van Lola Kirke. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.

Lola Kirke Wild West Village recensie, review en informatie

  • “In Wild West Village, the actor and country singer recounts her glamorous yet dysfunctional upbringing alongside sisters Domino and Jemima Kirke. Spanning New York City, Los Angeles, and, finally, Nashville, Kirke constructs a portrait of an ambitious young woman coming into her own.” (Harpers Bazar)
  • “Wildly entertaining, riotously funny and disarmingly self-aware. Wild West Village has all the tenets of a great country song: emotion, soul, and a damn good story. I devoured it in one delicous sitting and could have come back for more. Needless to say, I adored it.” (Coco Mellors, author of Blue Sisters)
  • “Lola Kirke has captured more than just her own wild and specific New York upbringing (one that resonates more profoundly than I’d like it to.) She has captured the yearning of a generation raised on seductive yet dangerous images of young starlets run amok, and her path through and out of these delusions of grandeur and into the grandeur of self. She is a wise, witty and unsparing writer and her memoir proves it in a voice as lovely as the one she uses to sing.” (Lena Dunham)

Lola Kirke Wild West Village

Wild West Village

Not a Memoir

  • Auteur: Lola Kirke (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir-in-essays
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 28 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 18,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van actrice en zangeres Lola Kirke

In this darkly humorous memoir-in-essays, actress and singer-songwriter Lola Kirke untangles an extraordinary upbringing in a family of eccentric, messy artists and explains how a big city girl went a little bit country.

The youngest daughter of a rock star father and clothing designer mother, Lola and her siblings (including actress Jemima and celebrity doula Domino), spent their childhoods freshly plucked from their English heritage in an eclectic West Village brownstone, hosting everyone from Cuban exiles to Courtney Love. But behind the enviable exterior of worldly coolness, was a home in disarray.

In Wild West Village, Kirke chronicles a search for self amidst the chaos of the affairs, addictions, and afflictions surrounding her, detailing misadventures in everything from masturbation to marijuana, Cadbury’s to country music, and a dream of salvation on the silver screen.

Filled with unforgettable characters and insights into identities forged in fire, Wild West Village locates humor and lightness in life’s darker situations. Irreverent and high-spirited, these are the stories of a young woman, teetering between a twang and a British accent, trying to fit in with larger-than-life personalities while secretly coming into her own.

Lola Kirke is born on 27 september 1990 in Portland Hospital in London, England. She is the daughter of rock drummer bands Bad Company and Free and is an acclaimed actress (Mistress America, Gone Girl, and Mozart in the Jungle) and singer-songwriter. Wild West Village is her first book.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Familiegeschiedenis, Familieroman, Palestijnse roman, Palestijnse schrijfster, Palestina

Betty Shamieh – Too Soon

Betty Shamieh Too Soon recensie, review en informatie van de roman van de Palestijns-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 28 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Avid Reader Press de roman van de Palestijns-Amerikaanse toneelschrijfster Betty Shamieh. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Betty Shamieh Too Soon recensie, review en informatie

  • “The novel, which opens in 2012, has all the beats of a romantic comedy—one that unfolds partly in the West Bank. The ribald humor, the over-the-top-ness that Shamieh brings to describing this struggle, reminded me—surprisingly—of mid-century Jewish American writers, especially Philip Roth. . . . These women are all antiheroes of a sort … Shakespeare would approve.” (Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic)
  • “Palestinian-American playwright Shamieh makes her wonderfully brash and sparkling fiction debut with this novel of three generations. . . . Funny, sexy, and often furious, this book fills in gaps in our understanding.” (Oprah Daily)
  • “For a book titled Too Soon, you will certainly not soon forget these powerful voices Shamieh presents to us.” (Chicago Review of Books)

Betty Shamieh Too Soon

Too Soon

  • Auteur: Betty Shamieh (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Palestijns-Amerikaanse familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 28 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 26,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman over de West Bank van Betty Shamieh

Arabella gets an unexpected chance at love when she’s thrust into a conflict and history she’s tried to avoid all her life. Zoya is playing matchmaker for her last unmarried granddaughter and stirring up buried memories. Naya is keeping a secret from her children that will change all their lives.

Thirty-five-year-old Arabella, a New York theatre director whose dating and career prospects are drying up, is offered an opportunity to direct a risqué cross-dressing interpretation of a Shakespeare classic—that might garner international attention—in the West Bank. Her mother, Naya, and grandmother, Zoya, hatch a plot to match her with Aziz, a Palestinian American doctor volunteering in Gaza. Arabella agrees to meet Aziz, since her growing feelings for Yoav, a celebrated Israeli American theatre designer, seem destined for disaster…

With biting hilarity, Too Soon introduces us to a trio of bold and unforgettable voices. This dramatic saga follows one family’s epic journey fleeing war-torn Jaffa in 1948, chasing the American Dream in Detroit and San Francisco in the sixties and seventies, hustling in the New York theatre scene post-9/11, and daring to stage a show in Palestine in 2012. Upon learning one of them is living on borrowed time, the three women fight to live, make art, and love on their own terms. A funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching literary debut, Too Soon illuminates our shared history and asks, how can we set ourselves free?

Betty Shamieh (she/her) was born in San Francisco. She is a Palestinian American writer and the author of fifteen plays. She is the playwright-in-residence at the Classical Theatre of Harlem. Her six New York play premieres include the sold-out off-Broadway runs of Roar and Malvolio, a sequel to Twelfth Night, which were both New York Times Critic’s Picks. Shamieh was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and named a UNESCO Young Artist for Intercultural Dialogue. She is a founding artistic director of The Semitic Root, a collective that supports innovative theatre cocreated by Arab and Jewish Americans. A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama, she lives with her family in San Francisco.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Debuutroman, Familiegeschiedenis, Familieroman, India

Tara Dorabji – Call Her Freedom

Tara Dorabji Call Her Freedom review, recensie en informatie novel en eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en dochter van Indiase en Duits-Italiaanse immigranten. Op 21 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de debuutroman van Tara Dorabji. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Tara Dorabji Call Her Freedom review, recensie en informatie

  • “In her brave debut novel, Tara Dorabji tells a story of one family under a brutal military occupation. In the foothills of the Himalayas, three generations—a mother, a daughter, a great-niece —draw strength from a matriarchal legacy as healers, warriors, and survivors. Based on real accounts from an ongoing struggle, Call Her Freedom gives voice to women we otherwise would not hear.” (Evelina Galang, author)
  • “Ultimately, Dorabji invites readers to explore deep family love and the battle for liberation amid a ruthless militaristic reign.” (Booklist)
  • “This is a dazzling and beautiful debut. Tara Dorabji introduces us to a singularly unique protagonist and a cast of indomitable characters living, loving, and fighting for their homeland in a landscape scarred by violence and the bitter legacy of colonialism. The result is a novel both intimate and panoramic about resilience, family, and unwavering hope.” (Alex Espinoza, author of The Sons of El Rey)

Tara Dorabji Call Her Freedom

Call Her Freedom

  • Auteur: Tara Dorabji (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: familieroman over India
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 21 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 25,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Tara Dorabji

A sweeping family saga following one woman’s struggle to protect her culture and her family amidst the backdrop of a military occupation.

In the foothills of the Himalayas, the picturesque mountain village of Poshkarbal is home to lush cherry and apple orchards and a thriving community—one divided by a patrolled border. Aisha and her mother Noorjahan live on the outskirts—two women alone in a world dominated by men. As the village midwife, Noorjahan teaches Aisha how to heal using local herbs and remedies. Isolated but content, Aisha is shocked when Noorjahan decides it is time for her to attend the village school as few girls do. Despite the taunting of her classmates and the teacher’s initial resistance to having her in the class, Aisha becomes a star student, destined for college.

When Aisha’s hand is bequeathed to a local boy in the village, she is forced to abandon her dreams of college. She comforts herself by staying on her ancestral land, creating a nourishing life with her children and husband. But her mother’s secrets come back to haunt her and her marriage and the growing military presence in Poshkarbal force Aisha to make impossible choices in order to save her family and preserve the independence Noorjahan fought for. What follows is a family chronicle brimming with life, love, and humor, about sacrifice and honor, and fighting for your home and culture in the face of occupation.

A deeply moving novel about one woman’s love for her family, this is an epic investigation of colonialism, militarization, and the loss and innocence on the journey to creating home. Spanning 1969 to 2022, Call Her Freedom is a love story that untangles family secrets and heals generational wounds, announcing Tara Dorabji as a thrilling new voice in fiction.

Tara Dorabji is the author of the novel, Call Her Freedom, winner of the Simon & Schuster Books Like Us first novel contest. She is the daughter of Parsi-Indian and German-Italian migrants. Her documentary film series on human rights defenders in Kashmir won awards at over a dozen film festivals throughout Asia and the USA. Tara’s publications include Al Jazeera, The Chicago Qusrterly and acclaimed anthologies: Good Girls Marry Doctors and All the Women in My Family Sing. She lives in Northern California with her family and rabbit.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Memoir

Sarah Hoover – The Motherload

Sarah Hoover The Motherload review, recensie en informatie memoir with episodes from the brink of motherhood. Op 14 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster de memoir over het aankomende moederschap en eerste boek van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Sarah Hoover. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de memoir is niet verkrijgbaar.

Sarah Hoover The Motherload review, recensie en informatie

  • “With blistering honesty, Hoover lays bare her own extremely messy journey to motherhood and through post-partum depression… A long overdue reality check.” (Oprah Daily)
  • “Unfiltered, honest, and amusing… will appeal to many.” (Vogue)

Sarah Hoover The Motherload

The Motherload

Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood

  • Auteur: Sarah Hoover (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 14 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 29.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol 

Flaptekst van de memoir over het moederschap van Sarah Hoover

An unflinching motherhood memoir that dares to ask what happens when “what to expect when you’re expecting” turns out to be months of rage, anguish, brain fog, and a total surrender of sex, career, and identity.

“The kid was objectively a tiny worm, even worse, a worm with my nose.” Welcome to Sarah Hoover’s candid and propulsive take on motherhood where she turns the ecstatic narrative women have been fed—one of immediate connection to your child followed by a joyful path of maternal discovery—on its head.

Like most of us, Sarah Hoover grew up imagining a certain life for herself, and when she moved from Indiana to New York City to study art history, the life she’d imagined began falling into place. She got her degree in art history, landed a job in a gallery, made friends, and met interesting artists, one of whom became her husband. But when Hoover got pregnant, everything in her life began to unravel.

She felt like an imposter in her own body. She grew distant from her friends and husband. Anxiety, fear, guilt, and shame threatened to swallow her. She also experienced trauma at the hands of one of her doctors—a stark trigger. And when her son was born, there was no… joy.

Her despair was persistent, even with help, therapy, and pills. Grieving a lost identity and angry at the world around her, she found herself despising her baby, her husband, and herself. She was afraid it might not end. With the help of a doctor’s diagnosis, Hoover began to understand the cluster of symptoms that informed her experience—she was drowning in postpartum depression—and that she wasn’t a bad mother or a failed woman.

At its core, The Motherload is about learning to forgive yourself. It’s a rejection of the cultural idea of the mother as a perfect being. And it’s an honest, propulsive, and often funny take on the vicissitudes of marriage, life, and parenting—a motherhood memoir unlike any other.

Sarah Hoover holds a master’s degree in cultural theory from Columbia and a BA in art history from NYU. Her writing has been featured in Mother Tongue, The Strategist, and Vogue. The Motherload is her first book.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, China, Historische Roman

Lisa See – De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan

Lisa See De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan recensie en informatie van de inhoud van de historische roman over China in 15e eeuw tijdens de Ming-dynastie. Op 22 januari 2025 verschijnt bij The House of Books de Nederlandse vertaling van de roman Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, geschreven door de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Lisa See. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave.

Lisa See De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan recensie en informatie

  • “Ondanks de buitensporige beperkingen die aan vrouwen worden opgelegd, laat See hun sterke punten hun verhalen domineren.” (Washington Post)
  • “See is een van die bijzondere schrijvers die zowel poëzie als plot kunnen leveren.” (New York Times Book Review)

Lisa See De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan

De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan

  • Auteur: Lisa See (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: historische roman over China
  • Origineel: Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (2023)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Marga Blankestijn
  • Uitgever: The House of Books
  • Verschijnt: 22 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 23,99 / € 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de historische roman over China tijdens de Ming-dynastie van Lisa See

China, 15e eeuw. Van jongs af aan leert Yunxian over vrouwenkwalen, samen met Meiling, een vroedvrouw-in-opleiding. De twee meisjes raken bevriend en vinden elkaar in hun gezamenlijke doel om vrouwen uit alle lagen van de bevolking te genezen. Maar wanneer Yunxian wordt uitgehuwelijkt, moet ze alles wat ze geleerd heeft vergeten om zich te gedragen als een voorbeeldige echtgenote. Haar verlangen om te genezen is echter sterker dan de traditie. Met de hulp van Meiling zal Yunxian een onuitwisbare indruk achterlaten op de levens van vele vrouwen tijdens de Ming-dynastie.

Lisa See is geboren op 18 februari 1955 in Parijs. Ze de de New York Times-bestsellerauteur van onder andere de romans De meisjes van Sjanghai en Het theemeisje van Yunnan. Ze ontving de Golden Spike Award van de Chinese Historical Association of Southern California en de Historymaker’s Award van het Chinese American Museum. Ze werd ook benoemd tot Vrouw van het Jaar door de Organisatie van Chinees-Amerikaanse Vrouwen. Haar boeken worden in 39 landen uitgegeven. Haar nieuwe historische roman De vrouwenkring van mevrouw Tan verschijnt in januari 2025.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster

Rebecca Kauffman – I’ll Come to You

Rebecca Kauffman I’ll Come to You review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 7 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Counterpoint Press de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Rebecca Kauffman. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Rebecca Kauffman I’ll Come to You review, recensie en informatie

  • “The joy in this book is something to admire deeply…the genuine, radiant, quiet, don’t blink kind of happiness. She shows us there is room in a novel—as in the heart—for everyone.” (The New York Times Book Review)
  • “A gentle, comic touch… sweet and satisfying.” (Wall Street Journal)
  • “An exquisite work of fiction that shines a light on one year in the life of a family—their truths and lies, vows and betrayals, seductive dreams and deepest fears. Like Elizabeth Strout and Marilynne Robinson before her, Kauffman is brilliant at drawing out the subtle links between lives—and at capturing the mix of awe and terror that exists within us all.” (Jonathan Lee)
  • “Rebecca Kauffman writes like a sunbeam, strong and warm on whatever lands in her path. This book only looks short—in reality, it reveals a family so richly drawn, so deep and complex, that it contains the whole world.” (Emma Straub)

Rebecca Kauffman I'll Come to You

I’ll Come to You

  • Auteur: Rebecca Kauffman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse familieroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Counterpoint Press
  • Verschijnt: 7 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 26,00 / $ 13,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Rebecca Kauffman

A modern and classic story of family, I’ll Come to You chronicles intersecting lives over the course of one year—1995—anchored by the anticipation and arrival of a child. With empathy, insight, and humor, Rebecca Kauffman explores overlapping narratives involving a couple whose struggle to become pregnant has both softened and hardened them, a woman whose husband of forty years has left her for reasons he’s unwilling to share and the man who is now disastrously attempting to woo her, a couple in denial about a looming health crisis, and their son who is fumbling toward middle age and can’t stop lying. Ultimately, these storylines crescendo and converge into a dramatic and harrowing turn of events. With heart, wit, and courage, and through pain, these characters traverse territory that both challenges and defines the bonds of family.

Sweeping yet compact, I’ll Come to You investigates themes of intimacy, memory, loss, grief, and reconciliation, and the wonder, terror, frustration, fear, and magic of brushing up against the unknowable—both around us and within us.

Rebecca Kauffman received her MFA in creative writing from New York University. She is the author of Another Place You’ve Never Been, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; The Gunners, which received the Premio Tribùk dei Librai; The House on Fripp Island, and most recently Chorus. Originally from rural northeastern Ohio, Kauffman now lives in Virginia.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Non-Fictie, Verenigde Staten

Amy Gamerman – The Crazies

Amy Gamerman The Crazies review, recensie en informatie non-fictie boek over The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West. Op 7 januari 205 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het non-fictie boek over van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Amy Gamerman over cowboys, miljardairs en een opwarmende planeet in de Amerikaanse staat Montana.

Amy Gamerman The Crazies review, recensie en informatie

  • “It’s impossible to say what’s more compelling about this marvelous book: the story itself—an epic tale of greed, resilience, and hypocrisy playing out against the backdrop of one of the most stunningly gorgeous pieces of real estate in the entire world—or the skill with which Amy Gamerman has masterfully woven a set of complex themes into narrative that boasts all the page-turning compulsiveness of a true-to-life thriller. Like the ferocious winds that that roar down from the mountains and across the pains of central Montana, The Crazies has the power to leave you feeling walloped, whip-sawed, and wildly invigorated, all within the same breath.” (Kevin Fedarko, auteur van A Walk in the Park)
  • “An absolutely wild ride through the untamed frontier of American culture. Gamerman brings alive the modern West in a breakneck story that’s outlandish but also almost mythically familiar. It turns out that the old fights over the frontier and the nature of American freedom aren’t over.” (Christopher Leonard, auteur van The Lords of Easy Money)

Amy Gamerman The Crazies

The Crazies

The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West

  • Auteur: Amy Gamerman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: reportages
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 7 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over Montana van Amy Gamerman

A dazzling piece of narrative nonfiction about land lust and the American West, The Crazies tells the story of a wind farm that triggers a 21st century range war between a struggling fifth-generation rancher and the billionaires next door.

Most locals in Big Timber, Montana learn to live with the wind. Rick Jarrett sought his fortune in it. Like his pioneer ancestors who staked their claims in the Treasure State, he believed in his right to make a living off the land—and its newest precious resource, million-dollar wind.

Trouble was, Jarrett’s neighbors were some of the wealthiest and most influential men in America, trophy ranchers who’d come West to enjoy magnificent mountain views, not stare at 500-foot wind turbines.

And so began an epic showdown that would pull in an ever-widening cast of larger-than-life characters, including a Texas oil and gas tycoon, a roguish wind prospector, a Crow activist fighting for his tribe’s rights to the mountains they hold sacred, and an Olympic athlete-turned-attorney whose path to redemption would lead to Jarrett’s wind farm. A wildly entertaining yarn, the brawl over Crazy Mountain Wind would become a fight over the values that define us as Americans—and a window into how this country actually works. All the while, the most coveted rangeland in the West was being threatened by forces more powerful than anything one man could muster: dwindling snowpack, record drought, raging wildfires.

The Crazies is a Western for a warming planet, full of cowboys and billionaires and billionaire cowboys. But it’s also so much more. It’s an exquisitely reported, ruggedly beautiful elegy for a vanishing way of life and a bighearted inquiry into how you can love a place so much you risk destroying it.

Amy Gamerman has written about real estate and culture for The Wall Street Journal for more than two decades. The Crazies is her first book.

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Elaine Kraf – The Princess of 72nd Street

Elaine Kraf The Princess of 72nd Street review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1979. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Princess of 72nd Street van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Elaine Kraf. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Elaine Kraf The Princess of 72nd Street recensie, review en informatie

  • “If one were to imagine a perfect specimen of a ‘forgotten classic’ by a woman writer from the 1960s and ’70s, you might come up with The Princess of 72nd Street… it’s a slender, accomplished and frequently funny work told from the perspective of a lively and bruised female consciousness….Its first-person narration feels essayistic, full of bold declarations about heterosexual love, gender roles and aesthetics.” (Washington Post)
  • “A provocative 1970s novel…. Almost half a century after it was first published, The Princess of 72nd Street sounds like a contemporary cry for freedom from the expectations of others.” (The Atlantic)

Elaine Kraf The Princess of 72nd Street

The Princess of 72nd Street

  • Auteur: Elaine Kraf (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1979
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Verschijnt: 2 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1979 van Elaine Kraf

Ellen is a single artist living alone on New York’s Upper West Side in the 1970s. She is beset by old boyfriends, paint pigment choices, and, occasionally, by ‘radiances’ – episodes of joyous, reckless unreality. Under the influence of ‘radiances’ she becomes Princess Esmeralda, and West 72nd Street becomes the kingdom over which she rules. Life as Esmeralda is a liberating experience for Ellen, who, despite the chaos and stigma these episodes can bring, relishes the respite from the confines of the everyday. And yet those around her, particularly the men in her life, are threatened by her incarnation as Esmeralda, and by the freedom that it gives her.

The Princess of 72nd Streetis Elaine Kraf’s witty, dizzyingly inventive take on female liberation and mental health, a work of immense literary power and unbridled energy. Provocative at the time of its publication in 1979 and thoroughly iconoclastic, it is a remarkable portrait of an unforgettable woman.

Elaine Kraf was born on 21 February 1936 in New York City. She was a writer and painter. She was the author of four published works of fiction: I Am Clarence (1969), The House of Madelaine (1971), Find Him! (1977) and The Princess of 72nd Street (1979)—as well as several unpublished novels, plays and poetry collections. She was the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts awards, a 1971 fellowship at the Broad Loaf Writers’ Conference and a 1977 residency at Yaddo. She was born and lived in New York City. On 26 June 2013 she died at the age of 77.

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