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The new earth : a novel / Jess Row.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: 573 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062400635
  • 0062400630
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The Upper West Side book of the dead -- The Apthorp -- Woods Hole -- The vastness of the world -- Feeling time -- The weather -- The question of happiness -- The question of melodrama -- The future -- The new earth -- A sort of homecoming -- Symposium on Jorge Luis Borges, "A new refutation of time" -- And this is the oppressor's language -- The return -- Good morning, Buddhas (Sandy in a moment of silence) -- An appeal (or, an attempt at an intervention) -- Scenes from a marriage (Sandy and Naomi in New York 1981-2001) -- Men, feelings -- The hammock -- The book of Naomi -- Discourse on loss -- Palestine: on the poverty of metaphor -- Wyatt -- The book of antecedents -- An act of sheer manipulation -- Jerusalem -- Arrivals -- America is dead -- The world -- Arrivals -- Timeline of the Wilcox and Downs families.
Summary: Demanding that her mother, father, and brother emerge from their self-imposed isolations and gather once more for her wedding, Winter Wilcox and her fractured Jewish family must face the harms of the past and decide if they can ever reconcile in the face of humanity's uncertain future.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction ROW, JESS Available 33111010977490
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity's uncertain future, from award-winning author Jess Row

For fifteen years, the Wilcoxes have been a family in name only. Though never the picture of happiness, they once seemed like a typical white Jewish clan from the Upper West Side. But in the early 2000s, two events ruptured the relationships between them. First, Naomi revealed to her children that her biological father was actually Black. In the aftermath, college-age daughter Bering left home to become a radical peace activist in Palestine's West Bank, where she was killed by an Israeli Army sniper.

Now, in 2018, Winter Wilcox is getting married, and her only demand is that her mother, father, and brother emerge from their self-imposed isolations and gather once more. After decades of neglecting personal and political wounds, each remaining family member must face their fractured history and decide if they can ever reconcile.

Assembling a vast chorus of voices and ideas from across the globe, Jess Row "explodes the saga from within--blows the roof off, so to speak, to let in politics, race, theory, and the narrative self-awareness that the form had seemed hell-bent on ignoring" (Jonathan Lethem). The New Earth is a commanding investigation of our deep and impossible desire to undo the injustices we have both inflicted and been forced to endure.

Demanding that her mother, father, and brother emerge from their self-imposed isolations and gather once more for her wedding, Winter Wilcox and her fractured Jewish family must face the harms of the past and decide if they can ever reconcile in the face of humanity's uncertain future.

The Upper West Side book of the dead -- The Apthorp -- Woods Hole -- The vastness of the world -- Feeling time -- The weather -- The question of happiness -- The question of melodrama -- The future -- The new earth -- A sort of homecoming -- Symposium on Jorge Luis Borges, "A new refutation of time" -- And this is the oppressor's language -- The return -- Good morning, Buddhas (Sandy in a moment of silence) -- An appeal (or, an attempt at an intervention) -- Scenes from a marriage (Sandy and Naomi in New York 1981-2001) -- Men, feelings -- The hammock -- The book of Naomi -- Discourse on loss -- Palestine: on the poverty of metaphor -- Wyatt -- The book of antecedents -- An act of sheer manipulation -- Jerusalem -- Arrivals -- America is dead -- The world -- Arrivals -- Timeline of the Wilcox and Downs families.

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