Bluestreak
4 primary works
Book 2
"The Best American Novelist Whose Name You May Not Know"—Calvin Baker, The Atlantic
"A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers" -TAYARI JONES, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE
"An American writer with a powerful sense of vital inheritance, of history in
the blood." -John Updike, The New Yorker
Eva's Man is a gripping psychological portrait of a woman unable to love for fear of pain. Imprisoned for the bizarre murder of her lover, Eva Median Canada weaves together memory and fantasy to reveal a life tormented by the brutality of sexual abuse and emotional silence. Brilliantly experimenting with language, Jones infuses her graphic and powerful narrative of the triple yoke of race, class, and gender with a rich musical and oral idiom.
"A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers" -TAYARI JONES, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE
"An American writer with a powerful sense of vital inheritance, of history in
the blood." -John Updike, The New Yorker
Eva's Man is a gripping psychological portrait of a woman unable to love for fear of pain. Imprisoned for the bizarre murder of her lover, Eva Median Canada weaves together memory and fantasy to reveal a life tormented by the brutality of sexual abuse and emotional silence. Brilliantly experimenting with language, Jones infuses her graphic and powerful narrative of the triple yoke of race, class, and gender with a rich musical and oral idiom.
Book 3
Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, travelling by bus to small towns, converting sceptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a rock star's manager and before that a beautician. Harlan draws us constantly deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of her tale - the story of her first healing. The Healing is a lyrical exploration of the struggle to let go of pain, anger and love. Gayl Jones' ability to capture the sounds and moods of the American South makes her one of the crucial American writers of our time.
Book 9
Bury those easy-to-read Black romance books. Mosquito is where African-American literature is heading as we approach the twenty-first century.--E. Ethelbert Miller, Emerge
Book 14
This exquisite book-length poem is set in colonial Brazil, following the destruction of Palmares, the last of seven fugitive slave enclaves beset by the Portuguese. Amid the flight and reenslavement of its inhabitants emerges the love story of Anninho and Almeyda, former African slaves. Song for Anninho offers readers some of Gayl Jones's very best verse.