The Furrows by Namwali Serpell

The Furrows by Namwali Serpell

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Publishers Weekly
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Time, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Esquire, Vulture, Ms. Magazine, Vox, Mental Floss, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews

A triumph.--New York Magazine
Breathtaking.--Esquire
Surreal and magical.--Financial Times

From one of the most celebrated new voices in American literature, a brilliantly inventive and enthralling (Oprah Daily) novel about the eternal bonds of family and the mysteries of love and loss--already earning its author comparisons to Toni Morrison . . . destined to end up on every Best of the Year list (Lit Hub).

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award - Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize

I don't want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt.

Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother, Wayne, is seven. One day, when they're alone together, there is an accident and Wayne is lost forever. His body is never recovered. The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt. Their father leaves, starts another family elsewhere. But their mother can't give up hope and launches an organization dedicated to missing children.

As C grows older, she sees her brother everywhere: in bistros, airplane aisles, subway cars. Here is her brother's face, the light in his eyes, the way he seems to recognize her, too. But it can't be, of course. Or can it? Then one day, in another accident, C meets a man both mysterious and familiar, a man who is also searching for someone and for his own place in the world. His name is Wayne.

Namwali Serpell's remarkable new novel captures the uncanny experience of grief, the way the past breaks over the present like waves in the sea. The Furrows is a bold exploration of memory and mourning that twists unexpectedly into a story of mistaken identity, double consciousness, and the wishful--and sometimes willful--longing for reunion with those we've lost.

Namwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for women writers and was selected for the Africa 39, a Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. She won the Caine Prize for African Writing and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. The Old Drift is her first novel.

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ISBN 13	9780593448915
ISBN 10	059344891X
Title	The Furrows
Author	Namwali Serpell
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hogarth
Year published	2022-09-27
Number of pages	288
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