Swift River
A Read with Jenna Pick
Published on 4. June 2024
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-6680-2791-2 (ISBN)
Description
In 1987, the only Black person in all Swift River after her Pop disappeared seven years ago, Diamond Newberry, receiving a letter from a relative she's never met, is introduced to two generations of African American Newberry women, gaining a sense of her place in the world and in her family.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6680-2791-2 (9781668027912)
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E-Book
06/2024
Simon + Schuster LLC
€13.84
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Person
Essie Chambers earned her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and has received fellowships from the MacDowell Vermont Studio Center, and Baldwin for the Arts. A former film and television executive, she was a producer on the documentary Descendant, which was released by the Obamas’ Higher Ground production company and Netflix in 2022. Swift River is her debut novel.