Speaking of Summer
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Speaking of Summer by Kalisha Buckhanon
A powerful song about what it means to survive as a woman in America (Jesmyn Ward), this fiercely astute novel follows a sister determined to uncover the truth about her twin's disappearance (Tayari Jones).
On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer's twin sister, Summer, walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again. The door to the roof is locked, and the snow holds only one set of footprints. Faced with authorities indifferent to another missing Black woman, Autumn must pursue the search for her sister all on her own.
With her friends and neighbors, Autumn pretends to hold up through the crisis. But the loss becomes too great, the mystery too inexplicable, and Autumn starts to unravel, all the while becoming obsessed with the various murders of local women and the men who kill them, thinking their stories and society's complacency toward them might shed light on what really happened to her sister.
In Speaking of Summer, critically acclaimed author Kalisha Buckhanon has created a fast-paced story of urban peril and victim invisibility, and the fight to discover the complicated truths at the heart of every family.Kalisha Buckhanon was born in the Illinois town of Kankakee in 1977. The NAACP, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Illinois Arts Council, Illinois Young Authors Commission, Mary Roberts Rhinehart Fund, and the Chicago Black Writers Conference have all given her awards and fellowships. Michigan Quarterly Review and Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas have both published her work. She has a master's degree in fine arts. New School University's MFA in Creative Writing and a B.A.
The University of Chicago awarded him a bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature. She has taught students in Chicago's South Side, Harlem, Brooklyn, and the Bronx about literacy and writing. Her debut novel is Upstate.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781640091917 |
| ISBN 10 | 1640091912 |
| Title | Speaking of Summer |
| Author | Kalisha Buckhanon |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Counterpoint |
| Year published | 2019-07-30 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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