Woman of Light

Woman of Light
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
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Hardback
h222 x 144mm - 336pg
1 Sep 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781472157713
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A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of anIndigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & CorinaONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022-The Millions, Electric Lit, Lit Hub, Book RiotThere is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories. Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz recollects her ancestors' origins, how her family flourished, and how they were threatened. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion. Written in Kali Fajardo-Anstine' s singular voice, the wildly entertaining and complex lives of the Lopez family fill the pages of this multigenerational western saga. Woman of Light is a transfixing novel about survival, family secrets, and love-filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, all of whom are just as special, memorable, and complicated as our beloved heroine, Luz.
"Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you' re swimming under a big, sparkling night sky. "-Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You "An intimate and intensely moving story of a Latinx and Indigenous family in the American West. Kali Fajardo-Anstine' s lyrical, unpretentious prose renders the generations of women of this story in all of their complexity, offering a nuanced perspective on how the past can inform the future . . . Fajardo-Anstine . . . is a formidable, necessary voice in fiction. "-Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Malibu Rising "With a single phrase, line of dialogue, description, Fajardo-Anstine has the power to accurately express the joy and sadness in a person' s life, their history, how the world comes into contact with us, and how we come into contact with the world. . . . Captivating. "-Mieko Kawakami, author of Breasts and Eggs "This novel is indelible, and shines its big light on the Lopez family so brightly that I could draw a map of their breath. . . . An absolutely glorious novel. "-Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here "A rare and wondrous kind of novel that assembles the universe from mere words, whose unforgettable characters haunt like long shadows in the southwestern light. "-Gary Shteyngart, author of Lake Success "Pure, simple, and luminescent . . . There are no other words to describe Kali Fajardo-Anstine' s Woman of Light; a brilliant conflagration of a story that opens the eyes and inflames the heart. "-Craig Johnson, author of the Longmire series "A cinematic, epic story. Kali Fajardo-Anstine brings her keen understanding of desire, vulnerability, and destiny to this gorgeous reclaiming of lost history. "-Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk
Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the author of Sabrina & Corina, a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, The Story Prize, and winner of an American Book Award. She is the 2021 recipient of the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been honored with the Denver Mayor' s Global Impact Award for Excellence in Arts & Culture and the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West BookAward for Fiction. She has written for The New York Times, Harper' s Bazaar, ELLE, The American Scholar, Boston Review, and elsewhere, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and Tin House. Fajardo-Anstine holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming and has lived across the country, from Durango, Colorado, to Key West, Florida. She is the 2022-2023 Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University. She is from Denver, Colorado.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781472157713
Published: 1 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Corsair
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 144mm
Spine: 36mm
Weight: 440g
Pages: 336

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