Rachel Eliza Griffiths

La primera novela de Rachel Eliza Griffiths: un canto a la memoria, el amor y la supervivencia en el seno de una familia afroamericana, escrita con la sensibilidad y la dureza con que se rompe y se recompone un corazon. La infancia de las hermanas Cinthy y Ezra Kindred ha transcurrido rodeada de amor. Han visto crecer su universo al amparo de sus padres y de los Junkett, con quienes integran la escasa comunidad negra de Salt Point, una pequeña poblacion pesquera de Maine. Pero al finalizar el verano y tras regresar a clase, las hermanas son recibidas con hostilidad. Incluso Ruby, la mejor amiga de Ezra, parece participar en la oleada de racismo que revelara las verdaderas dimensiones del abismo sobre el que el mundo de las hermanas se sustenta. Descubrir los prejuicios raciales de su apacible comunidad sera para las hermanas Kindred como presenciar el final de un sueño y el inicio de una pesadilla, pero les proporcionara tambien el material con el que levantar un refugio capaz de proteger a su familia y de resistir las amenazas del mundo exterior. Estamos en 1957, y alla fuera, como un rumor latente que sobrevuela las ciudades, los ecos del Movimiento por los Derechos Civiles auguran un cambio.La critica ha dicho:La conmovedora novela debut de la poeta Griffiths describe el insidioso alcance del racismo en la era de Jim Crow [...]. Apuntala el rabioso orgullo de una familia, su alegria ganada con mucho esfuerzo.Publishers Weekly Una luminosa historia de llegada a la madurez ambientada en el Maine de los años cincuenta [...]. Griffiths es alguien a quien he deseado leer una y otra vez.Harper's BazaarUn magnifico y estremecedor relato del racismo que una familia negra en el Maine de los años cincuenta se ve obligada a soportar, asi como del amor y la fuerza que los sostienen [...]. Un impresionante y evocador retrato del amor, el orgullo y la supervivencia.Kirkus Reviews La primera novela de Griffiths, un desgarrador relato sobre como el racismo alcanza con su largo brazo todos los rincones de la vida estadounidense, tambien rinde homenaje al amor acunado en el seno de las familias negras y a como este les otorga fuerza interior y capacidad de rebelarse.Historical Novel Society

Dans la petite bourgade de Salt Point en Nouvelle-Angleterre, il fait bon vivre en cette fin des années 1950, même quand on fait partie d’une des seules familles noires des alentours — comme c’est le

Dans la petite bourgade de Salt Point en Nouvelle-Angleterre, il fait bon vivre en cette fin des années 1950, même quand on fait partie d’une des seules familles noires des alentours — comme c’est le

A magical, magnificent novel, that amounts to a secret history of an America we think we know, but never really knew Marlon JamesThe people of Salt Point are afraid of the world beyond their rural town. Most of them areborn, live and die never having gone more than twenty or thirty miles from houses that are crammed with generations of their families. But something shifts at the end of summer 1957. Change makes its way to Salt Point.The Kindred sisters - Ezra and Cinthy - grew up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who let them believe that the stories they tell on stars can come true. Love from their neighbours, the Junketts, the only other Black family in town, whose home is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And love for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beautiful New England village perched high up on coastal bluffs.But as the girls hit adolescence, their white neighbours, including Ezras best friend, Ruby, start to see their maturing bodies and minds in a different way. And as the news from distant parts of the country fills with calls for freedom, equality, and justice for Black Americans, the white villagers of Salt Point begin to view the Kindreds and the Junketts as a threat to their way of life. Amidst escalating violence, prejudice, and fear, bold Ezra and watchful Cinthy must reach deep inside the wells of love theyve built to commit great acts of heroism and grace on the path to survival.In luminous, richly descriptive writing, Promise celebrates one familys story of resistance. Its a book that will break your heart - and then rebuild it with courage, hope, and love.A novel so potent, one wonders if its secretly a magic spellKiran Desai

This singular memoir stunned me. With a poets precision, Rachel Eliza Griffiths renders two interwoven tragedies few others could have lived through, much less written about with such clear-eyed candor.Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of The Liars ClubElegant and juicy . . . gratifyingly lush . . . An un-self-conscious conveyance of that time in life when nothing is impossible and dreams are jet fuelbut when everything can also seem dire, and heartache unendurable.The New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice)On September 24, 2021, Rachel Eliza Griffiths married her husband, the novelist Salman Rushdie. On the same day, hundreds of miles away, Griffiths closest friend and chosen sister, the poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, who was expected to speak at the wedding, died suddenly. Eleven months later, as Griffiths attempted to piece together her life as a newlywed with heartbreak in one hand and immense love in the other, a brutal attack nearly killed her husband. As trauma compounded trauma, Griffiths realized that in order to survive her grief, she would need to mourn not only her friend, but the woman she had been on her wedding day, a woman who had also died that day.In the process of rebuilding a self, Griffiths chronicles her friendship with Moon, the seventeen years since their meeting at Sarah Lawrence College. Together, they embraced their literary foremothersLucille Clifton, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, to name a fewand fought to embrace themselves as poets, artists, and Black women. Alongside this unbreakable bond, Griffiths weaves the story of her relationship with Rushdie, of the challenges they have faced and the unshakeable devotion that endures.In The Flower Bearers, Griffiths inscribes the trajectories of two transformational relationships with grace and honesty, chronicling the beauty and pain that comes with opening oneself fully to love.

Two Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their dreams as the Civil Rights Movement sweeps the nation in Promise, a magical, magnificent novel (Marlon James) from a startlingly fresh voice (Jacqueline Woodson).A KIRKUS REVIEWS AND CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEARThe people of Salt Point could indeed be fearful about the world beyond themselves; most of them would be born and die without ever having gone more than twenty or thirty miles from houses that were crammed with generations of their families. . . . But something was shifting at the end of summer 1957.The Kindred sistersEzra and Cinthyhave grown up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who let them believe that the stories they tell on stars can come true. Love from their neighbors, the Junketts, the only other Black family in town, whose home is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And love for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beautiful Maine village perched high up on coastal bluffs.But as the girls hit adolescence, their white neighbors, including Ezras best friend, Ruby, start to see their maturing bodies and minds in a different way. And as the news from distant parts of the country fills with calls for freedom, equality, and justice for Black Americans, the white villagers of Salt Point begin to view the Kindreds and the Junketts as threats to their way of life. Amid escalating violence, prejudice, and fear, bold Ezra and watchful Cinthy must reach deep inside the wells of love theyve built to commit great acts of heroism and grace on the path to survival.In luminous, richly descriptive writing, Promise celebrates one familys story of resistance. Its a book that will break your heartand then rebuild it with courage, hope, and love.

A beautiful and immensely powerful book about love, grief and finding a way to be in a forever altered world Julia SamuelThe Flower Bearers goes to some dark places, but there is joy, too . . . simultaneously a love story, a portrait of sisterhood and a visceral depiction of violence, loss and emotional devastation Guardian Lyrical and life-affirming . . . A deeply felt, expressive book that battles with despair and hope, ever searching for the latter ScotsmanOn September 24, 2021, Rachel Eliza Griffiths married her husband, the novelist Salman Rushdie. On the same day, hundreds of miles away, her closest friend, Kamilah Aisha Moon, who was expected to speak at the wedding, died suddenly. Eleven months later, as Rachel Eliza was learning to exist without her, a brutal attack nearly killed her husband. As trauma compounded trauma, Rachel Eliza realized that to survive her heartbreak, she would need to mourn not only her friend, but the woman she had been on her wedding day.And so Rachel Eliza chronicles her seventeen years of friendship with Aisha. From the moment they met in a college library, she knew she had found a soul sister. Their life together was filled with music: they danced to records in their apartments and skipped from one sticky jazz bar to another. Sitting side-by-side at poetry circles, reading Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, marching through Harlem protesting lost Black lives, Rachel Eliza drew inspiration and strength from her friend. Together they learnt to embrace themselves, as writers, artists, and Black women.Rachel Eliza interweaves this love story with another, that of her relationship with Rushdie, of the challenges they have faced and the depth of their connection. Celebrating the ways that these two extraordinary people have transformed her life, she reflects on the beauty and pain that come with opening oneself fully to love.

La primera novela de Rachel Eliza Griffiths: un canto a la memoria, el amor y la supervivencia en el seno de una familia afroamericana, escrita con la sensibilidad y la dureza con que se rompe y se recompone un corazon.La infancia de las hermanas Cinthy y Ezra Kindred ha transcurrido rodeada de amor. Han visto crecer su universo al amparo de sus padres y de los Junkett, con quienes integran la escasa comunidad negra de Salt Point, una pequeña poblacion pesquera de Maine. Pero al finalizar el verano y tras regresar a clase, las hermanas son recibidas con hostilidad. Incluso Ruby, la mejor amiga de Ezra, parece participar en la oleada de racismo que revelara las verdaderas dimensiones del abismo sobre el que el mundo de las hermanas se sustenta.Descubrir los prejuicios raciales de su apacible comunidad sera para las hermanas Kindred como presenciar el final de un sueño y el inicio de una pesadilla, pero les proporcionara tambien el material con el que levantar un refugio capaz de proteger a su familia y de resistir las amenazas del mundo exterior. Estamos en 1957, y alla fuera, como un rumor latente que sobrevuela las ciudades, los ecos del Movimiento por los Derechos Civiles auguran un cambio.Lacritica hadicho: La conmovedora novela debut de la poeta Griffiths describe el insidioso alcance del racismo en la era de Jim Crow [...]. Apuntala el rabioso orgullo de una familia, su alegria ganada con mucho esfuerzo.Publishers WeeklyUna luminosa historia de llegada a la madurez ambientada en el Maine de los años cincuenta [...]. Griffiths es alguien a quien he deseado leer una y otra vez.Harpers BazaarUn magnifico y estremecedor relato del racismo que una familia negra en el Maine de los años cincuenta se ve obligada a soportar, asi como del amor y la fuerza que los sostienen [...]. Un impresionante y evocador retrato del amor, el orgullo y la supervivencia.Kirkus ReviewsLa primera novela de Griffiths, un desgarrador relato sobre como el racismo alcanza con su largo brazo todos los rincones de la vida estadounidense, tambien rinde homenaje al amor acunado en el seno de las familias negras y a como este les otorga fuerza interior y capacidad de rebelarse.Historical Novel Society