epub | 2.64 MB | English | Isbn:9780593448915 | Author: Namwali Serpell | Year: 2022

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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year • Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize

"A triumph."-New York Magazine
From one of the most celebrated new voices in American literature a brilliantly inventive and "enthralling" (Oprah Daily) novel about the eternal bonds of family and the mysteries of love and loss-"already earning its author comparisons to Toni Morrison" (Lit Hub).

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker Oprah Daily Time The Washington Post Los Angeles Times The Guardian Esquire Vulture Ms. Magazine Vox Mental Floss BookPage Kirkus Reviews Publishers Weekly
I don't want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt.
Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother Wayne is seven. One day when they're alone together there is an accident and Wayne is lost forever. His body is never recovered. The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt. Their father leaves starts another family elsewhere. But their mother can't give up hope and launches an organization dedicated to missing children.
As C grows older she sees her brother everywhere: in bistros airplane aisles subway cars. Here is her brother's face the light in his eyes the way he seems to recognize her too. But it can't be of course. Or can it? Then one day in another accident C meets a man both mysterious and familiar a man who is also searching for someone and for his own place in the world. His name is Wayne.
Namwali Serpell's remarkable new novel captures the uncanny experience of grief the way the past breaks over the present like waves in the sea. The Furrows is a bold exploration of memory and mourning that twists unexpectedly into a story of mistaken identity double consciousness and the wishful-and sometimes willful-longing for reunion with those we've lost.