You Were Watching from the Sand

Name: You Were Watching from the Sand
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SKU: 9781636281056
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By Juliana Lamy

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You Were Watching from the Sand by Juliana Lamy is a compelling exploration of family dynamics and personal identity. Set against a vivid backdrop, the story delves into the intricacies of relationships, secrets, and the quest for understanding one's place in the world. As the characters navigate their intertwined lives, they are faced with choices that challenge their perceptions of love and loyalty.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy immersive stories that explore themes of identity, belonging, and personal transformation. Set against a richly detailed backdrop, it intricately delves into complex relationships and emotional depth, making it ideal for readers who appreciate thoughtful and introspective narratives.

You Were Watching from the Sand

A stylistically and conceptually daring collection that winds from fantastical horror to mischievous domestic realism and always keeps in its sharp, compassionate view the material, spiritual, and emotional lives of Haitian people.

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Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and children who find their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite back at the bizarre with their own oddities.

In belly, a young woman abandoned by her only living relative makes a person from the mud beside her backyard creek.

In We Feel it in Punta Cana, a domestic child servant in the Dominican Republic tours through his own lush imagination to make his material conditions more bearable.

In The Oldest Sensation is Anger, a teenager invites a same-aged family friend into her apartment and uncovers a spate of disturbing secrets about her.

Written in a mixture of high lyricism, absurdist comedy, and Haitian cultural witticisms, this is a collection whose dynamism matches that of its characters at every beat and turn.

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The book by Juliana Lamy has been praised for her remarkable clarity, inventiveness, and verbal skill. Kevin Brockmeier has highlighted these strengths, suggesting it heralds the beginning of an important literary career.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781636281056

Publisher: Red Hen Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 November 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Red Hen Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 176

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Fiction General Fiction Juliana Lamy Literary Fiction

About the Author

Juliana Lamy is a Haitian fiction writer with a bachelor’s degree in history and literature from Harvard College. In 2018, she won Harvard’s Le Baron Russell Briggs Undergraduate Fiction Prize. She spends much of her free time baking, because the measuring it requires is the best she’s ever been at anything math-related. She splits her time between Iowa City, Iowa, where she is an MFA candidate in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and South Florida, where she was raised after immigrating from Haiti. Juliana currently resides in Boynton Beach, Florida.