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    Speaking of Summer
    Speaking of Summer
    Speaking of Summer
    Audiobook10 hours

    Speaking of Summer

    Written by Kalisha Buckhanon

    Narrated by Karen Chilton

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    On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer's twin sister Summer walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again?the door to the roof is locked, and no footsteps are found. Faced with authorities indifferent to another missing woman, Autumn must pursue answers on her own, all while grieving her mother's recent death. With her friends and neighbors, Autumn pretends to hold up through the crisis. She falls into an affair with Summer's boyfriend to cope with the disappearance of a woman they both loved. But the loss becomes too great, the mystery too inexplicable, and Autumn starts to unravel, all the while becoming obsessed with murdered women and the men who kill them. In Speaking of Summer, critically acclaimed author Kalisha Buckhanon has created a postmodern, fast-paced story of urban peril and victim invisibility, and the fight to discover truth at any cost.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 30, 2019
    ISBN9781980043478
    Speaking of Summer
    Author

    Kalisha Buckhanon

    Kalisha Buckhanon’s first novel, Upstate, won an American Library Association Alex Award and was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Debut Fiction. Terry McMillan selected her to receive the first Terry McMillan Young Author Award in 2006. A recipient of a 2001 Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship and an Andrew Mellon Fellow, Buckhanon frequently teaches writing and speaks throughout the country. She has a M.F.A. in creative writing from New School University in New York City, and both a B.A. and a M.A. in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. She was born in 1977 in Kankakee, Illinois.

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    • 4/5
      I had a hard time getting into this novel - the narrative was jerky, the writing seemed rather opaque, and Autumn - the narrator - was, in many, ways, inscrutable. I almost gave up on it, but ultimately I'm glad I didn't. Through the story of her missing sister and through flashbacks to their childhood and the illness and death of their mother, Autumn confronts the complexities of race and gender in American society, as well as the role of trauma and mental illness on identity.I was not familiar with Buckhanon or her work before seeing Speaking of Summer in the Overdrive catalogue. She has written three other novels, all of which sound intriguing. I look forward to reading more.
    • 4/5
      As a thriller, it's a slow-burn style for sure. As literary fiction, it's powerful, relevant, emotional, and hopeful. Together, an excellent read that I'm still thinking about.