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Milk blood heat : stories / Dantiel W. Moniz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Grove Press, 2021Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, First editionDescription: 202 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780802158154
  • 0802158153
Related works:
  • Container of (work) : Moniz, Dantiel W. Feast
  • Container of (work) : Moniz, Dantiel W. Tongues
  • Container of (work) : Moniz, Dantiel W. Loss of heaven
  • Container of (work) : Moniz, Dantiel W. Hearts of our enemies
  • Container of (work) : Moniz, Dantiel W. Outside the raft
  • Container of (work) : Moniz, Dantiel W. Snow
  • Container of (work) : Moniz, Dantiel W. Necessary bodies
  • Container of (work) : Moniz, Dantiel W. Thicker than water
  • Container of (work) : Moniz, Dantiel W. Exotics
  • Container of (work) : Moniz, Dantiel W. Almanac of bones
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Contents:
Milk blood heat -- Feast -- Tongues -- The loss of heaven -- The hearts of our enemies -- Outside the raft -- Snow -- Necessary bodies -- Thicker than water -- Exotics -- An almanac of bones.
Summary: "Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family, faith, forgiveness, consumption, and what we may, or may not, owe one another. A thirteen-year-old meditates on her sadness and the difference between herself and her white best friend when an unexpected tragedy occurs; a woman recovering from a miscarriage finds herself unable to let go of her daughter-whose body parts she sees throughout her daily life; a teenager resists her family's church and is accused of courting the devil; servers at a supper club cater to the insatiable cravings of their wealthy clientele; and two estranged siblings take a road trip with their father's ashes and are forced to face the troubling reality of how he continues to shape them. Wise and subversive, spiritual and seductive, Milk Blood Heat forms an ouroboros of stories that bewitch with their truth, announcing the arrival of a bright new literary star."--Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Fiction MONIZ, DANTIEL Available 33111009774866
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction MONIZ, DANTIEL Available 33111010461826
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN AND PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM AWARDS

A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35

"A gorgeous debut" (Lauren Groff) from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all.

A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family, faith, forgiveness, consumption, and what we may, or may not, owe one another.

A thirteen-year-old meditates on her sadness and the difference between herself and her white best friend when an unexpected tragedy occurs; a woman recovering from a miscarriage finds herself unable to let go of her daughter--whose body parts she sees throughout her daily life; a teenager resists her family's church and is accused of courting the devil; servers at a supper club cater to the insatiable cravings of their wealthy clientele; and two estranged siblings take a road-trip with their father's ashes and are forced to face the troubling reality of how he continues to shape them.

Wise and subversive, spiritual and seductive, Milk Blood Heat forms an ouroboros of stories that bewitch with their truth, announcing the arrival of a bright new literary star.

Milk blood heat -- Feast -- Tongues -- The loss of heaven -- The hearts of our enemies -- Outside the raft -- Snow -- Necessary bodies -- Thicker than water -- Exotics -- An almanac of bones.

"Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family, faith, forgiveness, consumption, and what we may, or may not, owe one another. A thirteen-year-old meditates on her sadness and the difference between herself and her white best friend when an unexpected tragedy occurs; a woman recovering from a miscarriage finds herself unable to let go of her daughter-whose body parts she sees throughout her daily life; a teenager resists her family's church and is accused of courting the devil; servers at a supper club cater to the insatiable cravings of their wealthy clientele; and two estranged siblings take a road trip with their father's ashes and are forced to face the troubling reality of how he continues to shape them. Wise and subversive, spiritual and seductive, Milk Blood Heat forms an ouroboros of stories that bewitch with their truth, announcing the arrival of a bright new literary star."--Provided by publisher.

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