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One night, Agatha Winter’s phone rings. Jasmine, her 13-year-old sister, has run away from home and needs to be picked up at the bus terminal. It’s the anniversary of their mother’s accident and subsequent split from the family. Jasmine is determined to exact revenge. Their mother, now a flashy self-help guru under a new moniker, preaches “willing amnesia”: liberation by deliberately forgetting and disowning the past.
But “willing amnesia” is no innovation: it runs in the family. The girls’ grandmother and great-grandmother, both Holocaust survivors, have found their own superficially innocuous yet fiercely destructive ways to fend off memory. In separate struggles, the girls work to break free from the burden of their family’s silence.
Told in three major and two minor voices, Cricket in a Fist offers sophisticated psychological insight. Lewis’s rich command of language transports us into a world of richly imagined characters.
In this psychologically sophisticated debut novel, Naomi K. Lewis burrows into the inner sanctum of a family whose collective memory is purposefully vanishing. Agatha and Jasmine Winter, children of a flashy self-help guru who preaches “willing amnesia,” seek truth in the tangled strands of past and present. On the anniversary of their mother’s accident, they are thrown together in a struggle to break free of the burden of family silence — their grandmother’s and great-grandmother’s experiences of the Holocaust, their mother’s betrayal, and their own secrets, lies, and denials. Enmeshed among the fading filaments, there is hope and possibility.
Told in three major and two minor voices, Cricket in a Fist is a work of precocious mastery, provocative to the core.
268 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 0.68in
335gr
February 22, 2008
9780864924957
9780864925589 – EPUB
eng
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