{"product_id":"greenland-9780063159556","title":"Greenland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"David Santos Donaldson's \u003cem\u003eGreenland\u003c\/em\u003e is profoundly entertaining and full of emotion, humor, pain, and wisdom. His narrator dances in a hall of mirrors but he doesn't dance alone--he is joined by his husband, his best female friend Concha, E. M. Forster, Forster's Black Egyptian boyfriend, and others both earthly and unearthly. Rather like \u003cem\u003eThe Golden Notebook\u003c\/em\u003e for a new age with race and sexuality replacing gender and class, this is the work of a brilliant, inventive, sensuous dreamer.\"--Christopher Bram, author of \u003cem\u003eGods and Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLives of the Circus Animals\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of \u003cem\u003eThe Prophets\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMemorial\u003c\/em\u003e, about a young author writing about the secret love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl--in which Mohammed's story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammed's story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKip has only three weeks until his publisher's deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other. The similarities don't end there. Both of their lives have been deeply affected by their confrontations with Whiteness, homophobia, their upper crust education, and their white romantic partners. As Kip immerses himself in his writing, Mohammed's story - and then Mohammed himself - begins to speak to him, and his life becomes a Proustian portal into Kip's own memories and psyche. Greenland seamlessly conjures two distinct yet overlapping worlds where the past mirrors the present, and the artist's journey transforms into a quest for truth that offers a world of possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Electric and unforgettable, David Santos Donaldson's tour de force excavates the dream of white assimilation, the foibles of interracial relationships, and not only the legacy of a literary giant, but literature itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Amistad Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063159556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2022 pg. 7\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"David Santos Donaldson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42038695526581,"sku":"9780063159556","price":22.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_33f51e89-df88-4b51-b4bf-4d2aa80deee3.jpg?v=1649738510","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/greenland-9780063159556","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}