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![]() ![]() ![]() Yet Patsey’s haunting question, “What’ll become of me?”, remains unanswered. Last year's big-screen adaptation of his narrative, 12 Years a Slave, is currently nominated for nine Academy Awards-including a best supporting actress nod for the woman who plays Patsey, Lupita Nyong’o. ![]() One hundred sixty-one years later, Northup's account of his kidnapping and time as a slave on Edwin Epps's Louisiana plantation has been authenticated by scholars with annotated versions of Northup’s book, supplemental textbooks and articles detailing his life. When a free black man named Solomon Northup was rescued from 12 years of bondage in January of 1853, a fellow slave, a young woman named Patsey, called after him tearfully. ![]() ![]() ![]() There's Tony, a bored and unhappy lawyer who is inspired by the runner. There's Britt, who shows up at the commune harboring a dark secret. There's Owen and James, teenage twins who live in a desert commune, where their father, a self-proclaimed healer, holds a powerful sway over his disciples. There's Ren, just out of juvie, who travels to LA in search of his mother. The strange sight makes the local news and captures the imaginations of a stunning cast of misfits and lost souls. When a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six characters desperate for hope and love, set across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles.įrom the acclaimed author of Visitation Street, a visionary portrait of contemporary Los Angeles in all its facets, from the Mojave Desert to the Pacific, from the 110 to Skid Row.ĭuring a typically crowded morning commute, a naked runner is dodging between the stalled cars. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vitória feels naggingly unsatisfied and starts ballet lessons, where she befriends the most promising student, Dana. Her husband does not understand the unfocused, self-reflective observations she finally has time to write, but pampers her with everything she wants. When Vitória marries a rich man, she glides into a life of ease only marred by quiet clashes with her cold housekeeper. ![]() She commiserates with her lazy co-worker Antoinette, who longs for a husband. ![]() Vitória works as a cleaner at an art museum in an unnamed large, modern city, skips meals to afford simple splurges like a nice blouse, and yearns almost compulsively for the time and freedom to write about art. Cain ( Creature) upends fairy tale endings in her stimulating story of insidious oppression. ![]() ![]() He meets Dirty Yoll the Storyteller, who has reconstructed Balian's dreamlife and is narrating it to an enthralled crowd or perhaps Balian has merely dreamt that he met Dirty Yoll narrating to a dreamt crowd. Balian's dreams have verisimilitude, and he dreams dreams within dreams, so it's hard to say where his waking life ends and his sleep begins, or where one dream interconnects with the next. Once in Cairo, Balian falls prey to an exotic dream illness, the Arabian Nightmare, a nocturnal disease that consumes minds in ever-intensifying fits of delusion. ![]() Catherine, actually a spy in French pay hired to report on the shifting fortunes of the Mameluke dynasty. Balian of Norwich travels through Egypt, apparently as a pilgrim en route to the shrine of St. ![]() Labyrinthine, hugely digressive, but curiously engaging arabesque set in 15th-century Cairo, originally published in England in 1983. ![]() |