Foreign Body
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
14.02.2027
Verlag
Akashic Books, Ltd.Seitenzahl
336 (Printausgabe)
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781636143286
Bee, a resilient young woman with an infectious narrative voice, travels from her Caribbean home to Brooklyn, in search of safety, employment, and a truly rewarding partnership
IN FOREIGN BODY, BEE TELLS HER STORY IN THE LILTING VERNACULAR voice of a young Black West Indian womanwise, humorous, resourceful, and resilient. She is the victim of multiple assaults in her brutally patriarchal village, with the sole support of a stalwart grandmother. In spite of this, Bee becomes a record-winning sprinter, expert seamstress, trusted housekeeper, a successful cutterman in the sugarcane fields, and a voracious reader.
Along the way, Bee falls in love with Cherry, a beguiling character equal parts tender and violent. With Cherry, she discovers another side of sex: their pleasures heightened to ecstasy by their custom of cross-dressing. But, eventually, Cherry's tender qualities are subsumed by the violent ones and Bee flees; she leaves their son and daughter with her grandmother and escapes to Brooklyn, New York to take a job as the caretaker of an Orthodox Jewish family. In Brooklyn, she forms a special bond with Mistress Kuchinskiparticularly after an attempted assault on Bee by Kuchinski's rabbi-husband that ends up resulting in Bee's own imprisonment.
After she is released with Mistress Kuchinski's help, Bee starts a lucrative sewing business and sends for her two children. Despite herself, Bee falls deeply in love with Pastor Amy, the Jamaican-American minister of an Anglican churchand an outspoken lesbian. Pastor Amy moves into the brownstone with Bee and her children, and together they take a mortgage as joint owners. Bee feels the longing to become a mother againin vitro, the child to be raised with Pastor Amywith a rehabilitated Cherry, freshly arrived from the West Indies, as the donor-father. In the final pages it becomes clear that it is this unborn child, along with the reader, to whom Bee tells her unforgettable story.
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