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For readers of Bernardine Evaristo, Jacqueline Woodson, and Jesmyn Ward, this is a gripping, reflective, and powerful novel of healing, redemption, and love that follows a Queer Black woman - a recovering opioid addict recently out of prison - who is desperate to stay clean and pull her tattered life together with the aim of regaining custody of her two children while her old life beckons.
Ranita Atwater is a young woman who's old before her time. Newly released from four years in prison, she's back in Boston, sober and determined to stay clean, desperate to see her two kids and try to make up for her absence from their lives. As she tries to pull her life together with the aim of gaining custody of her son and daughter, she faces a daunting task - proving to the people who hold the keys to her future, to the two aunts who stepped up to raise the children, and to herself, most of all, that she is not the same woman who sacrificed everything to a ravenous opioid addiction.
Bolstered by memories of Maxine, the woman she fell in love with in prison and who taught her to value herself and have faith that a better life exists, Ranita gets a job, finds an apartment, and begins to rebuild her relationship with her kids. But the streets and her old acquaintances beckon. Will she be strong enough to resist their pull?
Helen Lee is the Director of the Program in Women's & Gender Studies and Professor of Fiction Writing in Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT. Her first novel, The Serpent's Gift (1994), was published by Atheneum and her second novel, Water Marked (1999), was published by Scribner. She was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Formerly the Associate Chair of the Board of Directors of PEN New England, she served on its Freedom to Write Committee and taught in its Prison Creative Writing Program, which she helped establish.
Bolstered by memories of Maxine, the woman she fell in love with in prison and who taught her to value herself and have faith that a better life exists, Ranita gets a job, finds an apartment, and begins to rebuild her relationship with her kids. But the streets and her old acquaintances beckon. Will she be strong enough to resist their pull?
Helen Lee is the Director of the Program in Women's & Gender Studies and Professor of Fiction Writing in Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT. Her first novel, The Serpent's Gift (1994), was published by Atheneum and her second novel, Water Marked (1999), was published by Scribner. She was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Formerly the Associate Chair of the Board of Directors of PEN New England, she served on its Freedom to Write Committee and taught in its Prison Creative Writing Program, which she helped establish.
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Published 2023-04-11 |