{"product_id":"9781933354842","title":"Anna In-Between","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eProspero's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e has written a novel more intimate than her usual big-picture work; this moving exploration of immigrant identity has a protagonist caught between race, class and a mother's love.\"— \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eProspero's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e :\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gripping and richly imagined . . . Nunez is a master at pacing and plotting.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e , Editors' Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nunez's fiction, with its lush, lyric cadences and whirlwind narrative, casts a seductive spell.\"— \u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnna In-Between\u003c\/i\u003e is Elizabeth Nunez's finest literary achievement to date. In spare prose, with laserlike attention to every word and the juxtaposition of words to each other, Nunez returns to themes of emotional alienation, within the context of class and color discrimination, so richly developed in her earlier novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna, the novel's main character who has a successful publishing career in the United States, is the daughter of an upper-class Caribbean family. While on vacation in the island home of her birth she discovers that her mother, Beatrice, has breast cancer. Beatrice categorically rejects all efforts to persuade her to go to the United States for treatment, even though it is, perhaps, her only chance of survival. Anna and her father, who tries to remain respectful of his wife's wishes, must convince her to change her mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Nunez\u003c\/b\u003e is provost at Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York, and an award-winning author of seven novels, including \u003ci\u003eProspero's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e ( \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice; 2006 Novel of the Year, \u003ci\u003eBlack Issues Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e ) and \u003ci\u003eBruised Hibiscus\u003c\/i\u003e (American Book Award). She is co-editor with Jennifer Sparrow of the anthology \u003ci\u003eStories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033549258992,"sku":"9781933354842","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933354842_p0.jpg?v=1763640430","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933354842","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}