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Coleman Hill

by Kim Coleman Foote
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Longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

  • Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
  • Shortlisted for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Debut Author
    A Washington Post Noteworthy Book for September
  • A Good Morning America Spectacular Book of the Month
  • A Christian Science Monitor Good Summer Reading Pick
  • A The Root Books By Black Authors We Can't Wait to Read
  • A The Millions Most Anticipated Book
  • A Tertulia Best Indie Publisher Book of 2023
  • A Debutiful Debut Books to Read in September
  • A Chicago Tribune Top Pick for Reading Season
  • A Boston Herald Top Pick for Fall 2023
    "Once in a while, a writer comes along with a brilliance that stops the breath. Kim Coleman Foote is that writer." —Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award–winning author of Red at the Bone
    "A masterpiece. Brilliant, vivid, heartbreaking, epic, beautiful, raw and true . . . This is the American story." ―Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Less Is Lost
    "Kim Coleman Foote has the rare talent of completely immersing you in time and place . . . A sweeping yet intimate family saga." —Sarah Jessica Parker
    Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in the wake of the Great Migration. Braiding fact and fiction, it is a remarkable, character-rich tour de force exploring the ties that bind three generations.
    In 1916, during the early days of the Great Migration, Celia Coleman and Lucy Grimes flee the racism and poverty of their homes in the post–Civil War South for the "Promised Land" of Vauxhall, New Jersey. But the North possesses its own challenges and bigotries that will shape the fates of the women and their families over the next seventy years. Told through the voices of nine family members—their perspectives at once harmonious and contradictory—Coleman Hill is a penetrating multigenerational debut.
    Within ten years of arriving in Vauxhall, both Celia and Lucy's husbands are dead, and they turn to one another for support in raising their children far from home. Lucy's gentleness sets Celia at ease, and Celia lends Lucy her fire when her friend wants to cower. Encouraged by their mothers' friendship, their children's lives become enmeshed as well. As the children grow into adolescence, two are caught in an impulsive act of impropriety, and Celia and Lucy find themselves at irreconcilable odds over who's to blame. The ensuing fallout has dire consequences that reverberate through the next two generations of their families.
    A stunning biomythography—a word coined by the late great writer Audre Lorde—Coleman Hill draws from the author's own family legend, historical record, and fervent imagination to create an unforgettable new history. The result is a kaleidoscopic novel whose intergenerational arc emerges through a series of miniatures that contain worlds.

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    Publisher: Zando

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    • Release date: September 5, 2023

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    • ISBN: 9781638931157
    • Release date: September 5, 2023

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    • ISBN: 9781638931157
    • File size: 12262 KB
    • Release date: September 5, 2023
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    subjects

    Fiction African American Fiction Literature Historical Fiction

    Languages

    English

    Longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

  • Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
  • Shortlisted for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Debut Author
    A Washington Post Noteworthy Book for September
  • A Good Morning America Spectacular Book of the Month
  • A Christian Science Monitor Good Summer Reading Pick
  • A The Root Books By Black Authors We Can't Wait to Read
  • A The Millions Most Anticipated Book
  • A Tertulia Best Indie Publisher Book of 2023
  • A Debutiful Debut Books to Read in September
  • A Chicago Tribune Top Pick for Reading Season
  • A Boston Herald Top Pick for Fall 2023
    "Once in a while, a writer comes along with a brilliance that stops the breath. Kim Coleman Foote is that writer." —Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award–winning author of Red at the Bone
    "A masterpiece. Brilliant, vivid, heartbreaking, epic, beautiful, raw and true . . . This is the American story." ―Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Less Is Lost
    "Kim Coleman Foote has the rare talent of completely immersing you in time and place . . . A sweeping yet intimate family saga." —Sarah Jessica Parker
    Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in the wake of the Great Migration. Braiding fact and fiction, it is a remarkable, character-rich tour de force exploring the ties that bind three generations.
    In 1916, during the early days of the Great Migration, Celia Coleman and Lucy Grimes flee the racism and poverty of their homes in the post–Civil War South for the "Promised Land" of Vauxhall, New Jersey. But the North possesses its own challenges and bigotries that will shape the fates of the women and their families over the next seventy years. Told through the voices of nine family members—their perspectives at once harmonious and contradictory—Coleman Hill is a penetrating multigenerational debut.
    Within ten years of arriving in Vauxhall, both Celia and Lucy's husbands are dead, and they turn to one another for support in raising their children far from home. Lucy's gentleness sets Celia at ease, and Celia lends Lucy her fire when her friend wants to cower. Encouraged by their mothers' friendship, their children's lives become enmeshed as well. As the children grow into adolescence, two are caught in an impulsive act of impropriety, and Celia and Lucy find themselves at irreconcilable odds over who's to blame. The ensuing fallout has dire consequences that reverberate through the next two generations of their families.
    A stunning biomythography—a word coined by the late great writer Audre Lorde—Coleman Hill draws from the author's own family legend, historical record, and fervent imagination to create an unforgettable new history. The result is a kaleidoscopic novel whose intergenerational arc emerges through a series of miniatures that contain worlds.

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    Fiction African American Fiction Literature Historical Fiction
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