Get Down by Asali Solomon
Asali Solomon's characters are vivid misfits--a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged mom pining for her salsa-dancing salad days, a scheming twentysomething virgin, a college stud in love with his weight-lifting partner, a lonely girl in love with a yellow dress. The kids in Get Down are trapped between their own good breeding and their burning desire to join the house party of sex, romance, and bad behavior that seems to be happening on some other block, down some other, more dangerous street. Get Down is, in the words of Edward P. Jones, touching and sensitively observed . . . from the first word to the last.
Solomon, Asali: - Asali Solomon's first novel, Disgruntled, was a best book of the year at the San Francisco Chronicle and Denver Post. Her first book, Get Down, earned a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 honor, and was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. Her work has appeared in O Magazine, Vibe, Essence, on NPR, the Paris Review Daily, McSweeney's and several anthologies. Associate Professor, Chair of English, and Director of Creative Writing, Solomon teaches fiction writing and literature of the African Diaspora at Haverford College. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she lives there with her husband and two sons.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780374531461 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374531463 |
| Title | Get Down |
| Author | Asali Solomon |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl |
| Year published | 2008-01-22 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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