Sabina Murray - THE HUMAN ZOO, pub. date AUGUST 2021

Time 2021-05-17 17:10:03

Web Name: Sabina Murray - THE HUMAN ZOO, pub. date AUGUST 2021

WebSite: http://www.sabinamurray.com

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Praise for VALIANT GENTLEMENValiant Gentlemen was a 2016 New York Times Notable Book and included on the Washington Post Best Books of 2016 list.NYTs Notable Book of 2016"...audacious historical novel about the Irish revolutionary martyr Roger Casement."New York Times Book Review"...a novel that, although set a hundred years ago...translates the past into a present as immediate as it is unnerving."Irish Times"A penetrating contemplation of relationships, or loyalty and betrayal, and of what it is to be 'valiant'"Boston Globe"That the novel can be so despairingly honest about a writer's limitations while still being so entertaining says a lot about Murray's considerable talent."New York Journal of Books"...a brilliant job of imbuing grand chunks of black and white history with color breathing fire."Fiction Advocate"...goes a long way toward examining current issues of white male privilege, sexuality, and class."New York Journal of Books"Murray does a brilliant job imbuing grand chunks of black and white history with color-breathing fire"emissourian.com"...Murray flashes her considerable literary talent and pens a fascinating, moving and epic account..."Historical Novel Society"...Reconstructing the lives of two extraordinary men and a remarkable woman in brilliant prose..Highly recommended."Washington Independent Review of Books"Murray shows pitch perfect dialogue, along with an uncanny ability to define character..."Publisher s Weekly Starred Review"...an impressive balance of historical accuracy and dramatic momentum, crafting a stellar fiction..."Vice"While Murray's work...is often described with the weak catchall phrase 'historical fiction' it is more nearly about the tensions of colonization."Men and women—eccentrics, scientists, criminals, scholars, and artists—are lured by the unknown and driven to pursue it.Katherine shea has strange appetites, a love of art, and a string of unlucky boyfriends.A blistering new novel that follows a Filipino American journalist's return to dictatorship-ruled Manila by a "cracklingly original" (Elle) and "singular" (New York Times Book Review) author, PEN Faulkner award-winner, Sabina Murray"The Human Zoo unfolds like the best of stories - one compelling detail following the next until an entire world emerges, full of revelations and aching truths. Murray has given us a powerful page-turner full of wry humor and shattering wisdom about love, family, the meaning of home, and history. This novel pulses with that most difficult of urgent truths: running away only leads us back to ourselves but that might be exactly what saves us in the end." Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker PrizeFilipino-American Christina "Ting" Klein has just travelled from New York to Manila, both to escape her imminent divorce, and to begin research for a biography of Timicheg, an indigenous Filipino brought to America at the start of 20th century to be exhibited as part of a 'human zoo.' It has been a year since Ting's last visit, and one year since Procopio "Copo" Gumboc swept the elections in an upset and took power as president. Arriving unannounced at her aging Aunt's aristocratic home, Ting quickly falls into upper class Manila life family gatherings at her cousin's compound; spending time with her best friend Inchoy, a gay socialist professor of philosophy; and a flirtation with her ex-boyfriend Chet, a wealthy businessman with questionable ties to the regime. All the while, family duty dictates that Ting be responsible for Laird, a cousin's fianc , who has come from the States to rediscover his roots.As days pass, Ting witnesses modern Filipino society languishing under Gumboc's terrifying reign. To make her way, she must balance the aristocratic traditions of her extended family, seemingly at odds with both situation and circumstance, as well temper her stance towards a regime her loved ones are struggling to survive. Yet Ting cannot extricate herself from the increasingly repressive regime, and soon finds herself personally confronted by the horrifying realities of Gumboc's power.At once a propulsive look at contemporary Filipino politics and the history that impacted the country,The Human Zoois a thrilling and provocative story from one of our most celebrated and important writers of literary fiction.LinksNew York Times MagazineLetters of Recommendation: Spam, because I actually do eat SpamVICEMan of the People, How could Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, despite his policy of murder, be so popular?LitHubHow Can We Make the MFA Workshop More Hospitable to Writers of Color, Ocean Vuong and I talk about silencing, compassion, and pedagogyThe RumpusEvery Woman Is A Nation Unto Herself: A Conversation with Sabina Murray, I chat with Edie Meidav about the influences on Valiant GentlemenLitHubWhat Can Historical Fiction Accomplish That History Does Not,Time theory and a prickly encounter with a "famous American writer."Huffington PostAfter Sebald, an essay that looks at Sebald's influence on contemporary writersParis ReviewWordsworth's she dwelt among the untrodden ways, essay about my grandfather's relationship with a poemThe Nervous BreakdownThe Spanish Thing, on not being able to speak Spanish when I look like I shouldSalonJunot Diaz, feminist?Diaz might identify most strongly with his female charactersHuffington PostThe Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot,dippy women? fascinating men? these novels have both!

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