num_pages: 256
description: Set in Washington D.C. New York and Louisianatravel into the heart and mind of an extraordinary autistic boy in this deeply imaginative debut novel of a mothers devotion a fathers punishment and the power of love. Says the Washington Post: Time of the Locust deftly brings together the fantastic and the realistic and it touches on a variety of issues from politics race and murder to disability domestic tragedy and myth...it sweeps from Depression-era Louisiana to New York in the 60s to Washington in the mid-90s....the story is strong and original and even the minor characters come alive...I was that mother once: terrified inside a weary body unable to explain my missing husband or my feral son. The car the mystery the rift  I know them theyre real. But Yejid spins them with gold and possibility in this dark and fantastical tale.
language: English
title: Time of the Locust
publisher: Atria