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Pomegranate: A Novel
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$13.99
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION
The acclaimed author of The Serpent’s Gift returns with this “deep and beautiful” (Jaqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author) story about a queer Black woman working to stay clean, pull her life together, and heal after being released from prison.
Ranita Atwater is “getting short.”
She is almost done with her four-year sentence for opiate possession at Oak Hills Correctional Center. Three years sober, she is determined to stay clean and regain custody of her two children. Ranita is regaining her freedom, but she’s leaving behind her lover Maxine, who has inspired her to imagine herself and the world differently.
My name is Ranita, and I’m an addict, she has said again and again at recovery meetings. But who else is she? Who might she choose to become? Now she must steer clear of the temptations that have pulled her down, while atoning for her missteps and facing old wounds. With a fierce, smart, and sometimes funny voice, Ranita reveals how rocky and winding the path to wellness is for a Black woman, even as she draws on family, memory, faith, and love in order to choose life.
Pomegranate is a complex portrayal of queer Black womanhood and marginalization in America from an author “working at the height of her powers” (Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling). In lyrical and precise prose, Helen Elaine Lee paints a humane and unflinching portrait of the devastating effects of incarceration and addiction, and of one woman’s determination to tell her story.
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Categories: Best Books of 2024 So Far
Product name:
Pomegranate: A Novel
Price:
$13.99
Donna Katser –
I think the recipient liked it but she’s a slow reader. Can’t say much more
AnneAmazon Customer –
This book was chosen for me by a book club and even though it was difficult for me to read at times I actually enjoyed it.
Sandy Kiefner –
This book is cram packed with life issues – the really difficult ones that many actually experience in today’s world such as addiction, racism, incarceration and how are we helping them? The reading is tangled but good. Surely when one reads it, one must reflect and think about the terrible current social issues also. Apply these thoughts when you read it.
Lucyricardo –
I’m loving this author’s book! I’m loving this new-to-me title that has a fascinating plot & touching characters. Sometimes I use my e-reader, but I love the colorful artwork on the cover & mini reviews on the back of it. Shipping & packaging were excellent.
Bette Barnett –
Ranita takes us for a ride as she is released from prison and tries to navigate her new drug/alcohol free life. Great character development and so real that I felt she was carrying me in her pocket.
Pat B. –
This book’s attempt to describe the effort required to be reunified with your children after incarceration and drug use is remarkable. The author does not take the easy way out by describing the reunification; instead, she shows how the mother comes to accept responsibility for the life she has led. The book, however, does seem like the product of a prison writing program. There are several “flights” from common presentation of action to Impressionism which does not drive the story forward, but does show the author’s ability to use metaphor and extended metaphor. Again, this is an interesting book, worth overlooking the showing language to get a glimpse of how incarceration affects children.
Amazon Customer –
Acceptance of who we are: past, present and what we do to work on ourselves for future (character) growth
Denver Hawkeye –
This book took me so vividly inside someone else’s pain and trauma that sometimes I had to put the book down and walk away. What a triumph, to lead me through both prison and psychotherapy, and still leave me with a feeling of hope. The daily reality of managing as a woman dependent on the bus system and walking through the city at all hours is an important part of how the book educated me. The siren call of the blissful oblivion available through opiates is all too believable. One of the best books I’ve read this year. 5 🌟 stars.