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The Furrows
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, Ryan Vincent Anderson, Kristen Ariza
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
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I don't want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt.
Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they're alone together, there's an accident, and Wayne is lost forever. Though his body is never recovered, their mother can't stop searching. The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt: how do you grieve an absence? And how does it feel?
As C grows older, she relives and retells her story, and she sees her brother everywhere: in cafes, airplane aisles, subway cars. Here is her brother's older face, the light in his eyes, his lanky limbs, the way he seems to recognise her, too. But it can't be, of course. Or can it? And then one day, there's another accident, and C meets a man both mysterious and familiar, a man who's also searching for someone, as well as his own place in the world. His name is Wayne.
Namwali Serpell's piercing new novel captures the ongoing and uncanny experience of grief, as the past breaks over the present, like waves in the sea. The Furrows is a bold exploration of memory and mourning that twists unexpectedly into a masterful story of mistaken identity, slippery reality, Black experience and the wishful and sometimes wilful longing for reunion with those we've lost.
Critic reviews
In Namwali Serpell's hands, grief is a kind of possession. The Furrows is a piercing, sharply written novel about the conjuring power of loss (Raven Leilani, author of Luster)
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- Jane Backeberg
- 14-01-23
Beautiful descriptive prose
I loved this story about how different people deal with loss or trauma. My only difficulty was that one character uses the n word a lot, in the way that shows it is now owned by the demographic who were (and sadly still are) insulted by it. I felt uncomfortable hearing it given its historical use as a racist slur even though that's not its effect here.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-03-23
Pretentious, over-written virtue signalling
Flat characters, stereotyped characters, characters who speak in the same voice. Needs an editor to kill way too many darlings.
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