Walking Through Mirrors
Brian Keith Jackson$15.29
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In his breathtaking debut, The View From Here, Brian Keith Jackson took us inside the heart of black family life in the rural South. Now, in a novel that resonates with pure emotion, he sends photographer Jeremy Bishop back to Elsewhere, Louisiana, for the funeral that marks the end of his father's life -- and the true beginning of his own.
His grandmother, Mama B, called him Patience. Jeremy was, she said, the most agreeable child. He would have liked to tell her that, even while growing up, his hidden wants festered deep inside him. His mother died just hours after his birth, and he was raised by Mama B and his Aunt Jess after his father disappeared. Even after his dad returned one day with his new family, Jeremy kept his distance. But it is a decade later, and Jeremy, now a successful New York photographer, gets a phone call from Louisiana. It is time for Jeremy Bishop to journey the long way home to help bury his father. In the graveyard where his father's body will be laid to rest; in a stranger's appearance at the wake; in a suicide; a murder; and finally inside a cardboard box that had belonged to his father, Jeremy will find himself in ways he never imagined. Conjuring Jeremy's youth in flashbacks as textured as the denim patch on his grandmother's rocking chair, Jackson weaves together past and present in a novel at once astonishing and universally human
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 08/01/1999
ISBN: 9780671568948
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.32w x 0.71d
Review Citations: Ingram Advance 08/01/1999 pg. 56
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 32144 / Walking Through Mirrors
Reading Level: 5.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 13
His grandmother, Mama B, called him Patience. Jeremy was, she said, the most agreeable child. He would have liked to tell her that, even while growing up, his hidden wants festered deep inside him. His mother died just hours after his birth, and he was raised by Mama B and his Aunt Jess after his father disappeared. Even after his dad returned one day with his new family, Jeremy kept his distance. But it is a decade later, and Jeremy, now a successful New York photographer, gets a phone call from Louisiana. It is time for Jeremy Bishop to journey the long way home to help bury his father. In the graveyard where his father's body will be laid to rest; in a stranger's appearance at the wake; in a suicide; a murder; and finally inside a cardboard box that had belonged to his father, Jeremy will find himself in ways he never imagined. Conjuring Jeremy's youth in flashbacks as textured as the denim patch on his grandmother's rocking chair, Jackson weaves together past and present in a novel at once astonishing and universally human
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 08/01/1999
ISBN: 9780671568948
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.32w x 0.71d
Review Citations: Ingram Advance 08/01/1999 pg. 56
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 32144 / Walking Through Mirrors
Reading Level: 5.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 13