Based on the 2009 shooting of a Nez Perce man by an Idaho State Police officer, Stripland follows four characters whose lives were upended by this death. Reality bends and perceptions warp as each one travels the same route from the McDonald's at the base of 21st Street up the hill to Dave's Pawn Shop on Thain Road in the city of Lewiston, Idaho. The separate stories of a homeless man, a woman lawyer, a bereft photographer and an internet trickster eventually intersect and overlap as they try to understand, exploit, or seek revenge for the killing.
Reihe
Sprache
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
mit Schutzumschlag
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-946970-88-6 (9781946970886)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
For 27 years, Joan Burbick traveled frequently to China and Hong Kong, teaching and lecturing. Puzzled about her husband's Chinese family that had erased the life and death of his mother, she decided to understand why. She began her research with personal letters from his Chinese family and then continued by searching archives in Philadelphia, New Haven, and Boston. She stayed in places her mother-in-law would have lived or visited in the 1940s and immersed herself in the pathways of fleeing Chinese during the Japanese-occupation. She read histories of modern China and Shanghai wartime newspapers. Erased was based on these years of investigation. Previously, Joan Burbick published books on Henry David Thoreau, rodeo queens, gun culture in America, and national narratives in the United States. She landed in the world of fiction later in life. Stripland was her first novel; Erased, the second.
