Scatterlings : a novel
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Published
New York : HarperVia, 2022., New York : HarperVia, 2023., , ©2020.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm.
277 pages ; 21 cm
277 pages ; 21 cm
Status
Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Adult Fiction
HIS Manenzhe
1 available
HIS Manenzhe
1 available
Okemos - New Books
HIS Manenzhe
1 available
HIS Manenzhe
1 available
South Lansing - Fiction
HIS Manenzhe
1 available
HIS Manenzhe
1 available
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Adult Fiction | HIS Manenzhe | Available | |
Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-New Items | HIS Manenzhe | Checked Out | June 13, 2024 |
Okemos - New Books | HIS Manenzhe | Available | |
South Lansing - Fiction | HIS Manenzhe | Available |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Apartheid -- South Africa -- Fiction.
Historical fiction
Historical fiction.
Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation -- South Africa -- Fiction.
Jamaicans -- South Africa -- Fiction.
Marital conflict -- Fiction.
Nineteen twenties -- South Africa -- Fiction.
Racially mixed families -- Fiction.
Racially mixed people -- South Africa -- Fiction.
South Africa -- Race relations -- Fiction.
Historical fiction
Historical fiction.
Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation -- South Africa -- Fiction.
Jamaicans -- South Africa -- Fiction.
Marital conflict -- Fiction.
Nineteen twenties -- South Africa -- Fiction.
Racially mixed families -- Fiction.
Racially mixed people -- South Africa -- Fiction.
South Africa -- Race relations -- Fiction.
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Published
New York : HarperVia, 2022., New York : HarperVia, 2023., , ©2020.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
Description
"In 1927, South Africa passes the Immorality Act, prohibiting sexual intercourse between 'Europeans' (white people) and 'natives' (Black people). Those who break the draconian new law face imprisonment—for men of up to five years; for women, four years. Abram and his wife Alisa have their share of marital problems, but they also have a comfortable life in South Africa with their two young girls. But then the Act is passed. Alisa is black, and their two children are now evidence of their involvement in a union that has been criminalized by the state. At first, Alisa and Abram question how they’ll be affected by the Act, but then officials start asking questions at the girls’ school, and their estate is catalogued for potential disbursement. Abram is at a loss as to how to protect his young family from the grinding machinery of the law, whose worst discriminations have until now been kept at bay by the family’s economic privilege. And with this, his hesitation, the couple’s bond is tattered. Alisa, who is Jamaican and the descendant of slaves, was adopted by a wealthy white British couple, who raised her as their child. But as she grew older and realized that the prejudices of British society made no allowance for her, she journeyed to South Africa where she met Abram. In the aftermath of the Immorality Act, she comes to a heartbreaking conclusion based on her past and collective history--and she commits her own devastating act, one that will reverberate through their entire family’s lives." --publisher's website.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Manenzhe, R. (2022). Scatterlings: a novel (First edition.). HarperVia.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Manenzhe, Rešoketšwe. 2022. Scatterlings: A Novel. HarperVia.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Manenzhe, Rešoketšwe. Scatterlings: A Novel HarperVia, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Manenzhe, Rešoketšwe. Scatterlings: A Novel First edition., HarperVia, 2022.
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