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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062960040
ISBN-13
9780062960047
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23057249787
Product Key Features
Book Title
Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing : a Memoir Across Three Continents
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Women Authors, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Customs & Traditions, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2022
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-020634
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Reviews
"Mary-Alice Daniel has created a radiant, multi-faceted, multi-genre narrative. Part myth, magic, memoir, remembrance, and whispered quilt, this book tackles lineage, fear, and difficulty with a hard-won elegance and grace. A powerful debut from a brilliant and gifted writer." -- Chris Abani, author of The Secret History of Las Vegas and Smoking the Bible "Mary-Alice Daniel's memoir is an introspection on the meaning of home and family and identity and race. Deeply personal, yet so relatable, especially to those who've had to leave a country. In places it brings to mind the best writings of Jhumpa Lahiri. Mary-Alice is a major talent to watch." -- Helon Habila, author of Travelers and The Chibok Girls "Mary-Alice Daniel can make a story shimmer with life; she can make an image leap off the page; she can make you want to read a sentence out loud just so your mouth can feel its sounds. Make room on your bookshelves: a dazzling new voice has arrived." -- Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and The Wine Lover's Daughter, "Mary-Alice Daniel has created a radiant, multi-faceted, multi-genre narrative. Part myth, magic, memoir, remembrance, and whispered quilt, this book tackles lineage, fear, and difficulty with a hard-won elegance and grace. A powerful debut from a brilliant and gifted writer." -- Chris Abani, author of The Secret History of Las Vegas and Smoking the Bible "Mary-Alice Daniel's memoir is an introspection on the meaning of home and family and identity and race. Deeply personal, yet so relatable, especially to those who've had to leave a country. In places it brings to mind the best writings of Jhumpa Lahiri. Mary-Alice is a major talent to watch." -- Helon Habila, author of Travelers and The Chibok Girls "Mary-Alice Daniel can make a story shimmer with life; she can make an image leap off the page; she can make you want to read a sentence out loud just so your mouth can feel its sounds. Make room on your bookshelves: a dazzling new voice has arrived." -- Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and The Wine Lover's Daughter "A powerful memoir...Throughout the enchanting narrative, Daniel vividly shares her and her family's traditions, customs, and religious views...An absolutely fascinating work from a gifted storyteller." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "In her incandescent debut, Nigerian poet Daniel recounts her life on three continents, surrounded by stories that made up the fabric of her African upbringing...This is a gem." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Wondrous...One can't help but be overwhelmed by the exquisiteness of [Daniel's] prose, which we sense has been pulled from the deepest regions of her heart...Mary-Alice Daniel is an exquisitely elegant young writer." -- New York Journal of Books, "Mary-Alice Daniel has created a radiant, multi-faceted, multi-genre narrative. Part myth, magic, memoir, remembrance, and whispered quilt, this book tackles lineage, fear, and difficulty with a hard-won elegance and grace. A powerful debut from a brilliant and gifted writer." -- Chris Abani, author of The Secret History of Las Vegas and Smoking the Bible "Mary-Alice Daniel's memoir is an introspection on the meaning of home and family and identity and race. Deeply personal, yet so relatable, especially to those who've had to leave a country. In places it brings to mind the best writings of Jhumpa Lahiri. Mary-Alice is a major talent to watch." -- Helon Habila, author of Travelers and The Chibok Girls "Mary-Alice Daniel can make a story shimmer with life; she can make an image leap off the page; she can make you want to read a sentence out loud just so your mouth can feel its sounds. Make room on your bookshelves: a dazzling new voice has arrived." -- Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and The Wine Lover's Daughter "A powerful memoir...Throughout the enchanting narrative, Daniel vividly shares her and her family's traditions, customs, and religious views...An absolutely fascinating work from a gifted storyteller." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "In her incandescent debut, Nigerian poet Daniel recounts her life on three continents, surrounded by stories that made up the fabric of her African upbringing...This is a gem." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Wondrous...One can't help but be overwhelmed by the exquisiteness of [Daniel's] prose, which we sense has been pulled from the deepest regions of her heart...Mary-Alice Daniel is an exquisitely elegant young writer." -- New York Journal of Books "...writing so beautiful it's worth the price of admission...Readers who enjoyed memoirs like Albert Samaha's Concepcion (2021) will love this." -- Booklist (starred review) "The poet Mary-Alice Daniel's scholarly parents left Nigeria in their 20s; to her boisterous family, the U.K. looked 'like all color had been boiled out of it.' Their resettlement set off a strain of restlessness in Daniel's life, one she mines for insight in her memoir. Her account of their continued moves, and of West Africa's knotty postcolonial scene, is lucid and poetic." -- Vulture "A melodious exploration of Nigeria . . . A breathtaking story of tracing history and finding home." -- People (Book of the Week), "Mary-Alice Daniel has created a radiant, multi-faceted, multi-genre narrative. Part myth, magic, memoir, remembrance, and whispered quilt, this book tackles lineage, fear, and difficulty with a hard-won elegance and grace. A powerful debut from a brilliant and gifted writer." -- Chris Abani, author of The Secret History of Las Vegas and Smoking the Bible "Mary-Alice Daniel's memoir is an introspection on the meaning of home and family and identity and race. Deeply personal, yet so relatable, especially to those who've had to leave a country. In places it brings to mind the best writings of Jhumpa Lahiri. Mary-Alice is a major talent to watch." -- Helon Habila, author of Travelers and The Chibok Girls "Mary-Alice Daniel can make a story shimmer with life; she can make an image leap off the page; she can make you want to read a sentence out loud just so your mouth can feel its sounds. Make room on your bookshelves: a dazzling new voice has arrived." -- Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and The Wine Lover's Daughter "A powerful memoir...Throughout the enchanting narrative, Daniel vividly shares her and her family's traditions, customs, and religious views...An absolutely fascinating work from a gifted storyteller." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "In her incandescent debut, Nigerian poet Daniel recounts her life on three continents, surrounded by stories that made up the fabric of her African upbringing...This is a gem." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Wondrous...One can't help but be overwhelmed by the exquisiteness of [Daniel's] prose, which we sense has been pulled from the deepest regions of her heart...Mary-Alice Daniel is an exquisitely elegant young writer." -- New York Journal of Books "...writing so beautiful it's worth the price of admission...Readers who enjoyed memoirs like Albert Samaha's Concepcion (2021) will love this." -- Booklist (starred review) "The poet Mary-Alice Daniel's scholarly parents left Nigeria in their 20s; to her boisterous family, the U.K. looked 'like all color had been boiled out of it.' Their resettlement set off a strain of restlessness in Daniel's life, one she mines for insight in her memoir. Her account of their continued moves, and of West Africa's knotty postcolonial scene, is lucid and poetic." -- Vulture "A melodious exploration of Nigeria . . . A breathtaking story of tracing history and finding home." -- People (Book of the Week) "Striking, discerning and haunting....Read this book once for the furious beauty of Daniel's prose. Read it again for a master class in how we might finally come to tell our stories on our own terms." -- New York Times Book Review, "Mary-Alice Daniel has created a radiant, multi-faceted, multi-genre narrative. Part myth, magic, memoir, remembrance, and whispered quilt, this book tackles lineage, fear, and difficulty with a hard-won elegance and grace. A powerful debut from a brilliant and gifted writer." -- Chris Abani, author of The Secret History of Las Vegas and Smoking the Bible "Mary-Alice Daniel's memoir is an introspection on the meaning of home and family and identity and race. Deeply personal, yet so relatable, especially to those who've had to leave a country. In places it brings to mind the best writings of Jhumpa Lahiri. Mary-Alice is a major talent to watch." -- Helon Habila, author of Travelers and The Chibok Girls, "Mary-Alice Daniel has created a radiant, multi-faceted, multi-genre narrative. Part myth, magic, memoir, remembrance, and whispered quilt, this book tackles lineage, fear, and difficulty with a hard-won elegance and grace. A powerful debut from a brilliant and gifted writer." -- Chris Abani, author of The Secret History of Las Vegas and Smoking the Bible "Mary-Alice Daniel's memoir is an introspection on the meaning of home and family and identity and race. Deeply personal, yet so relatable, especially to those who've had to leave a country. In places it brings to mind the best writings of Jhumpa Lahiri. Mary-Alice is a major talent to watch." -- Helon Habila, author of Travelers and The Chibok Girls "Mary-Alice Daniel can make a story shimmer with life; she can make an image leap off the page; she can make you want to read a sentence out loud just so your mouth can feel its sounds. Make room on your bookshelves: a dazzling new voice has arrived." -- Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down and The Wine Lover's Daughter "A powerful memoir...Throughout the enchanting narrative, Daniel vividly shares her and her family's traditions, customs, and religious views...An absolutely fascinating work from a gifted storyteller." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "In her incandescent debut, Nigerian poet Daniel recounts her life on three continents, surrounded by stories that made up the fabric of her African upbringing...This is a gem." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Wondrous...One can't help but be overwhelmed by the exquisiteness of [Daniel's] prose, which we sense has been pulled from the deepest regions of her heart...Mary-Alice Daniel is an exquisitely elegant young writer." -- New York Journal of Books "...writing so beautiful it's worth the price of admission...Readers who enjoyed memoirs like Albert Samaha's Concepcion (2021) will love this." -- Booklist (starred review)
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20220427
Dewey Decimal
973.0496690730092
Synopsis
A poetic coming-of-age memoir that probes the legacies and myths of family, race, and religion--from Nigeria to England to America Mary-Alice Daniel's family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in the Nigerian savanna. They arrived to a blanched, cold world of prim suburbs and unfamiliar customs. So began her family's series of travels across three continents in search of places of belonging. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing ventures through the physical and mythical landscapes of Daniel's upbringing. Against the backdrop of a migratory adolescence, she reckons with race, religious conflict, culture clash, and a multiplicity of possible identities. Daniel lays bare the lives and legends of her parents and past generations, unearthing the tribal mythologies that shaped her kin and her own way of being in the world. The impossible question of which tribe to claim as her own is one she has long struggled with: the Nigerian government recognizes her as Longuda, her father's tribe; according to matrilineal tradition, Daniel belongs to her mother's tribe, the nomadic Fulani; and the language she grew up speaking is that of the Hausa tribe. But her strongest emotional connection is to her adopted home: California, the final place she reveals to readers through its spellbinding history. Daniel's approach is deeply personal: in order to reclaim her legacies, she revisits her unsettled childhood and navigates the traditions of her ancestors. Her layered narratives invoke the contrasting spiritualities of her tribes: Islam, Christianity, and magic. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing is a powerful cultural distillation of mythos and ethos, mapping the far-flung corners of the Black diaspora that Daniel inherits and inhabits. Through lyrical observation and deep introspection, she probes the bonds and boundaries of Blackness, from bygone colonial empires to her present home in America.
LC Classification Number
E184.N55D36 2022
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