Leaving Atlanta - by Tayari Jones (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An award-winning author makes her fiction debut with the coming-of-age story of three young black children during the Atlanta child murders of 1979. This haunting menace provides the backdrop to the exquisitely evocative stories of three children fighting the everyday battles of adolescence.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the author of the Oprah's Book Club Selection <i>An American Marriage</i>, here is a beautifully evocative novel that proves why Tayari Jones is one of the most important voices of her generation (<i>Essence</i>). </b><br>It was the end of summer, a summer during the two-year nightmare in which Atlanta's African-American children were vanishing and twenty-nine would be found murdered by 1982. Here fifth-grade classmates Tasha Baxter, Rodney Green, and Octavia Harrison will discover back-to-school means facing everyday challenges in a new world of safety lessons, terrified parents, and constant fear. <p/> The moving story of their struggle to grow up-and survive- shimmers with the piercing, ineffable quality of childhood, as it captures all the hurts and little wins, the all-too-sudden changes, and the merciless, outside forces that can sweep the young into adulthood and forever shape their lives. <p/><b> PRAISE FOR TAYARI JONES</b><br><b> Tayari Jones is blessed with vision</b><b> to see through to the surprising and devastating truths at the heart of ordinary lives, strength </b><b>to wrest those truths free, and a gift of language</b><b> to lay it all out, compelling and clear. -- Michael Chabon</b> <p/><b> Tayari Jones has emerged as one of the most important voices of her generation</b><b>. -- </b><i>Essence</i> <p/><b> One of America's finest writers.</b><b> -- Nylon.com</b> <p/><b> Tayari Jones is a wonderful storyteller</b><b>. -- </b><i>Ploughshares</i>span<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Tayari Jones has emerged as one of the most important voices of her generation.--<i><b>Essence</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, including <i>Silver Sparrow, The Untelling, Leaving Atlanta, </i>and<i> An American Marriage, </i>which was an Oprah's Book Club Selection and winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize), Aspen Words Prize, and an NAACP Image Award, as well as appearing on Barack Obama's summer reading list and year-end roundup. She holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa. She is an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.
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