

Solemn
Author: Kalisha Buckhanon
Narrator: Cherise Boothe
Unabridged: 11 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/03/2016
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, African American & Black Fiction
Author: Kalisha Buckhanon
Narrator: Cherise Boothe
Unabridged: 11 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/03/2016
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, African American & Black Fiction
Kalisha Buckhanon’s first novel, Upstate, won an American Library Association Alex Award and was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Debut Fiction. Terry McMillan selected her to receive the first Terry McMillan Young Author Award in 2006. A recipient of a 2001 Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship and an Andrew Mellon Fellow, Buckhanon frequently teaches writing and speaks throughout the country. She has a M.F.A. in creative writing from New School University in New York City, and both a B.A. and a M.A. in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. She was born in 1977 in Kankakee, Illinois.
At first I was bowled over by the author's gift for words, but as the book went on, I grew more and more dissatisfied and confused by the sketchy plot. I suppose the main character, Solemn, came of age before my eyes, but it felt like quite the slog to stay with her. I closed the book not knowing if......more
Solemn Redvine, a young girl, sensed the baby in a nearby trailer may be a half-sibling. But then she sees a man throw the baby down a well. Solemn keeps her screts to herself. Later after her father is a traveling salesman who takes his daughter she assists him in stealing large amounts from an emp......more