EAN: 9781781090855

THE FURROWS - NAMWALI SERPELL KARTONIERT (TB)

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 are alone together  there is an
accident  and Wayne is lost forever. Though his body is never recovered  their mother is unable
to stop searching. The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt: How do you grieve an absence?
And how does it feel? As C grows older  she relives and retells her story  and she sees her
brother everywhere: in coffee shops  subway cars  cities on both sides of America. Here is her
brother's older face  the colour of his eyes  his lanky limbs  the way he seems to recognise
her too. But it can't be  of course. Or can it? And then one day  there is another accident 
and C meets a man both mysterious and familiar  a man who is also searching for someone  as
well as his own place in the world. His name is Wayne. Namwali Serpell's piercing new novel
captures the ongoing and uncanny experience of grief  as the past breaks over the present  like
waves in the sea. The Furrows is a bold and beautiful exploration of memory and mourning that
twists unexpectedly into a masterful story of mistaken identity  slippery reality  black
experience  and the wishful and sometimes willful longing for reunion with those we've lost.

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