ISBN: 9781250849274
Editorial: Picador
Autor: Levy, Ashley Nelson
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 192
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: A goop Book Club Selection and Best Book of the Year • Amazon Editors' Choice “This unsparing and absorbing family portrait broke my heart and remade it a hundred times over.” ―Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, VitaminIt is the day of her brother’s wedding and our narrator is still struggling with her toast. Despite a recent fracture between them, her brother, Danny, has asked her to give a speech and she doesn’t know where to begin, how to put words to their kind of love. She was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother, six years her junior. They grew up together like any other siblings, and shared a bucolic childhood in Northern California. Yet when she holds their story up to the light, it refracts in ways she doesn’t expect.What follows is a heartfelt letter addressed to Danny and an attempt at a full accounting of their years growing up, invoking everything from the classic Victorian adoption plot to childless women in literature to documents from Danny’s case file. It’s also a confession of sorts to the parts of her life that she has kept from him, including her own struggle with infertility. And as the hours until the wedding wane, she uncovers the words that can’t and won’t be said aloud.In Immediate Family, a tender and fierce debut novel, Ashley Nelson Levy explores the enduring bond between two siblings and the complexities of motherhood, infertility, race, and the many definitions of family. Review goop Best Books of 2021"Throughout Immediate Family, the narrator probes her identity as the older sister to a boy who confounds her, but also as the mother she longs to be. At the time of the wedding she has spent months undergoing fertility treatments, and her desire to reproduce . . . is both mirror and counterpoint to her parents’ aching, yearslong quest to adopt Danny." ―Jessica Winter, The New York Times Book Review"This short, unsparing novel is a beautiful and provocative snapshot of a family and the complicated, imperfect love that binds one member of it to another." ―goop“Ashley Nelson Levy’s unflinching debut novel, Immediate Family, puts a fresh and culturally relevant spin on the theme of adoption in literature . . . Nuanced and generously rendered . . . A unique, gorgeously textured narrative that explores the boundaries of familial love . . . Boldly embracing life’s entanglements, Levy’s novel is a work of powerful, life-affirming generosity.” ―Ryan Smernoff, Los Angeles Review of Books"Deeply moving . . . What a delight to find the same sensibility that pervades Transit [Books, cofounded by Levy]―a sharp aesthetic and moral intelligence, an embrace of subtlety and complexity, a taste for risk and daring―in every page of Immediate Family." ―Katie Kitamura, BOMB"Feels almost memoir-like in its realness." ―Seija Rankin, Entertainment Weekly"A beautifully raw ode to the bond between siblings." ―Sabienna Bowman, PopSugar"Touching and tightly crafted . . . Gifted with a lifelike finesse, the narrator's piercing tales of family and self are love-wrought, delivered in Levy's honed, beautiful writing." ―Annie Bostrom, Booklist"Wrenching . . . Powerful vignettes, such as memories of Danny being bullied as a child for looking different, blend with musings about the history of transracial adoption, Victorian literature, and famous adoptees . . . The smooth flights may remind readers of Donald Antrim’s novels. This exhibits a delicate touch while unpacking a complicated relationship, yielding much emotional insight." ―Publishers Weekly"Levy captures elusive ideas and intense emotions about transracial adoption and infertility." ―Kirkus"A book as intimate as a whisper between two old friends, late in the night, with no one to eavesdrop but the owls." ―Catherine Lacey, author of Pew“For all the orphans populating the pages of contemporary fiction, there are vanishingly few novels that honestly explore the complexities of adoption in modern Am
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