商品簡介
Ndiya Grayson returns to her childhood home of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can't protect her from memories of an impoverished past in the South Side. One evening, vulnerable and emotionally disarrayed, she goes out and meets her equal and opposite.
Shame Luther is a no-nonsense construction worker by day and a jazz pianist by night, an expert navigator of the gaps that fall between piano notes, memories, and conversations. Almost by accident, Ndiya and Shame begin building an intimate and private world. But as tectonic plates in Chicago shift—and as landlords and exes, dealers and children, media attention and brutal police encroach—this world only fractures further. Their singular, remarkable quest for peace takes them through time and memory, across the ocean, and ultimately back into each other's arms, through shouts and chronological record skips.
A vibrant portrait in overlapping color and texture, Another Kind of Madness tells the story of looking for trust and love in an increasingly uninhabitable America. A jazz song of a novel laced with poetic, near-synesthetic language, this is an extraordinary debut.
作者簡介
Ed Pavlic is the author of Visiting Hours at the Coloring Line, winner of the 2013 National Poetry Series, and several other collections of poems, including Live at the Bitter End: A Trial by Opera and Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno. He has published essays, poems, fiction, and dramatic pieces in numerous magazines and journals, including Boston Review, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and Callaloo. Widely respected for his scholarship, his critical work includes ‘Who Can Afford to Improvise?’: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners and Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African American Literary Culture. A recipient of the Author of the Year Award from the Georgia Writers Association and a fellowship from the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, he has received the Albert Christ-Janer Creative Research Award, the Darwin Turner Memorial Award from African American Review, and many other awards and fellowships. Pavlic teaches English at the University of Georgia.
