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2020
Title Love After Love
Authors
Genres Contemporary Fiction
Publisher Random House Publishing Group
ISBN 9780593157565
"Family lies at the center of this bright, generous debut. Love after Love offers both a window into Caribbean literature and a wider lens on immigration, race, and sexuality. Mostly, though, it's just a great story; funny, tender, and true."--Entertainment Weekly "[Ingrid] Persaud's novel Love After Love . . . is centered on her birthplace of Trinidad and told in the dialect of people who live there. Persaud's colloquial style is part of what sets apart her depiction of those everyday, everywhere things like the relationship between a parent and a child."--Time "Steeped in loneliness, Ingrid Persaud's debut novel is also full of craving for love, the failures and tragedies alongside the pleasures of food and flesh, and the joys of human relationships."--Paul McVeigh, Irish Times "Restless, heartbreaking, and intensely spellbinding, Love After Love will stay with you long after the last page."--André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name "Love After Love is gift after gift. An unforgettable symphony of love and loss, heartache and guilt, and the secrets and lies that pull us together, and tear us apart. Dazzlingly told in the most electrifying prose you will read all year."--Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf "Persaud's auspicious debut traces the gut-wrenching lives of a makeshift Trinidadian family over the past two decades. . . . In chapters alternately narrated by Solo, Betty, and Chetan in vibrant Trinidadian dialect, Persaud expertly maps the trio's emotional development and builds a complicated yet seamless plot full of indelible insights and poignant moments. This affecting family saga shines brightly."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This book teems with real, Trinidadian life: neighbors so nosy they know your business before it happens; descriptions of food that'll have you googling recipes; feting and liming and plenty of sex. There's darkness here, too--violence, loneliness, moments of despair--and how Ingrid Persaud weaves all these elements together in one book, with so much warmth and humor and love for her characters, is a wonder."--Claire Adam, award-winning author of Golden Child "Love After Love is funny, REALLY funny. It made me ugly cry and put me right in Trinidad. A story of second chances and third chances, love and secrets. But, the main thing for me were the voices of Betty, Mr. Chetan, and Solo--brilliant characterisation. This will be big!"--Jessie Burton, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Confession "Written in luscious prose, this book brings to life the sights, sounds, flavors, and characters of Trinidad. . . . Ingrid Persaud will crack open your heart with the compassion and warmth she pours into her characters. A must read."--Read It Forward "Beautifully written . . . This affecting novel tells the story of an unconventional family. . . . The skilled treatment of the characters brings them to vivid life, as it does the richly realized Trinidadian setting. An award-winning short story writer, Persaud demonstrates her skill with longer fiction in this superb debut novel."--Booklist (starred review).
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