Shifting through Neutral Free Download Ebook By Bridgett M. Davis
Title | : | Shifting through Neutral |
Author | : | Bridgett M. Davis |
Format | : | Paperback |
Page | : | 305 pages |
ISBN | : | 0641772858 |
Not yet a woman yet than a little girl, Rae Dodson is caught up in her family s drama Her hip older sister, Kimmie, whom her mother favors, has moved from New Orleans to join them in Detroit, a city that moves as if in synch with the Stevie Wonder tunes that play giddily from new automobiles fresh off the factory lots Her bid whist playing mother is as nervous as ev
Not yet a woman yet than a little girl, Rae Dodson is caught up in her family s drama Her hip older sister, Kimmie, whom her mother favors, has moved from New Orleans to join them in Detroit, a city that moves as if in synch with the Stevie Wonder tunes that play giddily from new automobiles fresh off the factory lots Her bid whist playing mother is as nervous as ever, and her father s chronic migraines seem less responsive to medication And while they all occupy the same house, they might as well be living separate lives When the tenuous peace finally breaks, Rae must decide where her loyalties lie should she choose her emotionally distant mother, whom she adores, or her affectionate but needy father Rae does choose and launches into a rich, loving relationship with her dad, for whom she shows a fierce, undying loyalty But as she matures, she must find a way amid her own budding sexuality to be both Daddy s girl and her own woman.
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Bridgett M Davis is a novelist, essayist, teacher, filmmaker and curator.Her highly anticipated second novel, Into The Go Slow, will be published by Feminist Press on September 9th The novel, which was praised by Chris Abani as a beautiful allegory of love, family, expansion, hope and transformation , is set both in Davis hometown of Detroit and the Nigerian metropolis, Lagos where Davis liv Bridgett M Davis is a novelist, essayist, teacher, filmmaker and curator.Her highly anticipated second novel, Into The Go Slow, will be published by Feminist Press on September 9th The novel, which was praised by Chris Abani as a beautiful allegory of love, family, expansion, hope and transformation , is set both in Davis hometown of Detroit and the Nigerian metropolis, Lagos where Davis lived for a year as a Thomas J Watson Fellow Into The Go Slow was born of her experiences as an African American ex pat in the most complicated and intriguing city in the world.Davis grew up on Detroit s Northwest side, and continues to use the Motor City as a locale in her work Detroit for me is like Faulkner s Yoknapatawpha County, she says Only my city is both apocryphal and real I think of Detroit as ever rising from her ashes, ever becoming, ever intriguing Davis debut novel Shifting Through Neutral, published by Amistad Harper Collins in 2004, was a finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston Richard Wright Legacy Award A Quarterly Black Review bestseller and an Original Voices selection by Border s Books, Shifting Through Neutral was featured in national media, including NPR s News Notes Davis was selected as 2005 New Author of the Year by Go on Girl Book Club the largest national reading group for African American women.She is also writer director of the critically acclaimed, award winning film NAKED ACTS, which screened at a host of festivals in the US, Europe, and Africa before having its theatrical and DVD release Indiana University s Black Film Archive will honor Davis this Fall, on the 20th anniversary of the film s production.A major advocate for promoting and nurturing literary talent by people of color, Davis is the Books Editor for the black culture site Bold As Love Magazine boldaslove.us founder and curator for the popular Brooklyn reading series, Sundays and a founding member of ringShout, a group dedicated to celebrating and promoting ambitious literary work by African American writers.With an early career as a newspaper reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Davis articles have appeared in a host of newspapers and magazines recently her reviews and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Essence, O, The Oprah Magazine, TheRoot.com, The Chicago Tribune, and The Detroit Free Press.Equally dedicated to her work as a teacher and mentor, Davis is a professor at Baruch College, CUNY, where she teaches Creative Writing and Journalism, and is Director of the Sidney Harman Writer in Residence Program She is also Co Academic Director of the University s Faculty Fellowship Publication Program, FFPP where she facilitates writing workshops for female and minority faculty seeking to complete and publish their creative works.A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University s Graduate School of Journalism, Davis lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son and daughter
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