High Spirits (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Camille Gomera-Tavarez | knygos.lt

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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Flying Start

★ "Authentic and immersive...A labor of love imbued with dedication to family." --Kirkus Reviews (starred)

★ "Deeply personal and relatable. Steeped in nostalgia and harsh but fierce love, this is a memorable family saga in its own right." --Booklist (starred)

★ "Full of vivid and poetic imagery... settings worthy of drinking in, and thematic material ripe for contemplation about identity, intergenerational memory, and patriarchy and toxic masculinity, Gomera-Tavarez's soulfully crafted debut is a sensitive, intrinsically feminist work." --Publishers Weekly (starred)

"A magical and unflinching look at the Dominican Diaspora"--Dominican Writers Association

"A true reader's treat." -- Al Día News

"This nostalgic collection of family stories is stunning."--Shelf-Awareness

High Spirits is a collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora, from debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez.

It is a book centered on one extended family - the Beléns - across multiple generations.

It is set in the fictional small town of Hidalpa - and Santo Domingo and Paterson and San Juan and Washington Heights too.

It is told in a style both utterly real and distinctly magical - and its stories explore machismo, mental health, family, and identity.

But most of all, High Spirits represents the first book from Camille Gomera-Tavarez, who takes her place as one of the most extraordinary new voices to emerge in years.