McCarthy, Jesse
Summary: After a chance encounter with an ex-NBA player with his own regrets, recent college graduate Jonah Winters, unsure of what's next, heads to Brazil where he slowly forms an understanding of self, community, and freedom that is rarely afforded to young black men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCPacheco, Josae Emilio
Summary: "This landmark novella -one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times- offers a child's-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in 'the year of polio, foot-and- mouth disease, floods.' A middle-class boy grows up in a world of children aping adults (mock wars at recess pit Arabs against Jews), where a child's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2021