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Pomegranate
Reader Score
80%
80% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Great
Based on 3 reviews on
Nominee:Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence -Fiction (2024)
Finalist:Lambda Literary Award -Lesbian Fiction (2024)
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION The acclaimed author of The Serpent's Gift returns with this "deep and beautiful" (Jaqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author) story about a queer Black woman working to stay clean, pull her life together, and heal after being released from prison.Ranita Atwater is "getting short." She is almost done with her four-year sentence for opiate possession at Oak Hills Correctional Center. Three years sober, she is determined to stay clean and regain custody of her two children. Ranita is regaining her freedom, but she's leaving behind her lover Maxine, who has inspired her to imagine herself and the world differently. My name is Ranita, and I'm an addict, she has said again and again at recovery meetings. But who else is she? Who might she choose to become? Now she must steer clear of the temptations that have pulled her down, while atoning for her missteps and facing old wounds. With a fierce, smart, and sometimes funny voice, Ranita reveals how rocky and winding the path to wellness is for a Black woman, even as she draws on family, memory, faith, and love in order to choose life. Pomegranate is a complex portrayal of queer Black womanhood and marginalization in America from an author "working at the height of her powers" (Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling). In lyrical and precise prose, Helen Elaine Lee paints a humane and unflinching portrait of the devastating effects of incarceration and addiction, and of one woman's determination to tell her story.
Book Details
- Publisher: Washington Square Press
- Publish Date: Jan 30th, 2024
- Pages: 368
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.21in - 5.37in - 0.64in - 0.62lb
- EAN: 9781982171902
- Categories: • African American & Black - Women• Women• LGBTQ+ - Gay
About the Author
Lee, Helen Elaine: - Helen Elaine Lee was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Law School. She served on the PEN New England board and on its Freedom to Write committee and volunteered with its Prison Creative Writing Program, which she helped to establish. She is a professor in Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT. She is the author of three novels: The Serpent's Gift, Water Marked, and Pomegranate. Find out more at HelenElaineLee.net.
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"An aching portrayal of a woman whose young life gets waylaid by self-splintering challenges: abusive mother, wrong boy, debilitating addictions, grievous betrayals."