Sentences with phrase «multigenerational tale»
As she did with Half of a Yellow Sun, Adichie creates a multigenerational tale, spanning three continents and incorporating the complicated politics of Lagos, the slippery codes of race and class, and the emotional network of family and friends.
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- Booklist «Fans of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections will appreciate this satisfying, multigenerational tale.
Debut author Margaret Wilkerson Sexton takes readers to her native New Orleans for a multigenerational tale filled with young love as well as tragic, heavy themes of race, class and colorism.
It's a multigenerational tale set in the Sacramento Valley, where five generations of the Keller family live together.
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Agosín, an award - winning author, lived a similar multicultural, multigenerational story set around the Pinochet coup in the 1970s, and she writes of it with beauty and grace, telling a compelling tale that both enchants and haunts.
- School Library Journal «Once again Horvath displays a genius for creating multigenerational, interestingly extended families, and for blending high and low comedy into a tale rife with important themes and life - changing events.»
Set in on a rural farm in West Hall, Vermont, this multigenerational paranormal tale alternates between the early 19th century and the present.