The Living Days
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This novel of post-9/11 London is a masterful dissection of racism, aging, and the perturbing nature of desire. Ananda Devi&apos;s "fluid, poetic language memorably conjures a union of two outcasts" ( The New Yorker). A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, a seventy-five-year-old white British spinster, and Cub, a thirteen-year-old Jamaican boy from Brixton. Mary increasingly clings to phantoms as dementia overtakes her reality, latching on to Cub and channeling all of her remaining energy into their relationship. But their macabre romance comes to a horrific climax, as white supremacy, poverty, and class conflict explode on the streets of London. Through exquisite juxtaposition, Devi uses lush prose to confront the tensions of an increasingly nationalistic metropolis, and the queasy nature of desire muddled with power. “A gorgeously written, profoundly upsetting fairy tale of race, class, power, and desire.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Brutal and entirely believable, a gorgeous and haunting depiction of London and the real lives and memories of those unseen within it." — Publishers Weekly


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Language: English
File size: 4178 KB
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Print length: 166 pages
Publication date: November 5, 2019
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
subtitle: Kindle Edition
author: Ananda Devi Jeffrey Zuckerman