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You were watching from the sand : short stories / Juliana Lamy.

by Lamy, Juliana, 1998-

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Red Hen Press, 2023.

Haitians -- Fiction.

9781636281056 (trade pbk.)

155 p. ; 21 cm.

You were watching from the sand -- The oldest sensation is anger -- Sylpha -- Manticore -- We feel it in Punta Cana -- Eli -- Open house -- Wynwood -- Muscle memory -- July in New Orleans -- belly -- mermaids!

"Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and children who find their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite back at the bizarre with their own oddities. In "belly," a young woman abandoned by her only living relative makes a person from the mud beside her backyard creek. In "We Feel it in Punta Cana," a domestic child servant in the Dominican Republic tours through his own lush imagination to make his material conditions more bearable. In "The Oldest Sensation is Anger," a teenager invites a same-aged family friend into her apartment and uncovers a spate of disturbing secrets about her. Written in a mixture of high lyricism, absurdist comedy, and Haitian cultural witticisms, this is a collection whose dynamism matches that of its characters at every beat and turn"--Provided by publisher.

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