When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

Hannah Payne awakens to a nightmare. She is lying on a table in a bare room, covered only by a paper gown, with cameras broadcasting her every move to millions at home. She is now a convicted criminal, and her skin color has been genetically altered. Her crime, according to the State of Texas: the murder of her unborn child, whose father she refuses to name. Her color: red. The color of newly shed blood. In Hannah's America, sometime in the future, faith, love, and sexuality have fallen prey to politics. Convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated, but chromed, forced to appear in a new and sinister form of reality TV, and released back into the population. Stigmatized in a hostile world, they must survive the best they can. Until her arrest, Hannah had devoted her life to church and family. In seeking a path to safety, she is forced to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes the personal.

Hillary Jordan is the author of the novels Mudbound (2008) and When She Woke (2011), as well as the digital short Aftermirth. Mudbound won the Bellwether Prize for Socially Conscious Fiction in 2006, and the American Library Association's Alex Award in 2009. It won the NAIBA Fiction Novel of the Year award in 2008 and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize in 2010. It was selected one of the Top Ten Debut Novels of the Decade by Paste magazine. Mudbound has been translated into French, Italian, Serbian, Swedish, and Norwegian, and a film adaptation will be released in the fall of 2017. When She Woke was a finalist for the 2012 Lambda Literary Prize and was long-listed for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It has been translated into complex characters in French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Chinese.

Jordan graduated from Wellesley College with a BA in English and Columbia University with an MA in Creative Writing. She was born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in Muskogee, Oklahoma, before settling in Brooklyn, New York.

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ISBN 13	9781565126299
ISBN 10	1565126297
Title	When She Woke
Author	Hillary Jordan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Year published	2011-10-04
Number of pages	344
Prizes	Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Fiction) 2012
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