num_pages: 288
description: How do you grieve an absence? A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and belonging from the award-winning author of The Old Drift.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.
language: English
title: The Furrows
publisher: Hogarth