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    Time of the Locust: A Novel
    Time of the Locust: A Novel
    Time of the Locust: A Novel
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    Time of the Locust: A Novel

    By Morowa Yejidé

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    A deeply imaginative debut novel about a family in crisis, Time of the Locust “deftly brings together the fantastic and the realistic, and touches on a variety of issues, from politics, race, and murder to disability, domestic tragedy, and myth…[and] spins them with gold and possibility” (The Washington Post).

    Sephiri is an autistic boy who lives in a world of his own making, where he dwells among imagined sea creatures that help him process information in the “real world” in which he is forced to live. But lately he has been having dreams of a mysterious place, and he starts creating fantastical sketches of this strange, inner world.

    Brenda, Sephiri’s mother, struggles with raising her challenged child alone. Her only wish is to connect with him—a smile on his face would be a triumph. Sephiri’s father, Horus, is serving a life sentence in prison, making the days even lonelier for Brenda and Sephiri. Yet prison is still not enough to separate father and son. In the seventh year of his imprisonment and at the height of his isolation, Horus develops extraordinary mental abilities that allow him to reach his son. Memory and yearning carry him outside his body, and through the realities of their ordeals and dreamscape, Horus and Sephiri find each other—and find hope in ways never imagined.

    Deftly portrayed by the remarkably talented Morowa Yejidé, this “unique and astounding debut” (New York Times bestselling author Lalita Tademy) is a harrowing, mystical, and redemptive journey toward the union of a family.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtria Books
    Release dateJun 10, 2014
    ISBN9781476731377
    Time of the Locust: A Novel
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    Morowa Yejidé

    Morowa Yejidé, a native of Washington, DC, is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Time of the Locust, which was a 2012 finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize, long-listed for the 2015 PEN/Bingham Prize, and a 2015 NAACP Image Award nominee. She lives in the DC area with her husband and three sons. Creatures of Passage is her second novel.

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      Every once in a while one is fortunate to come across a book that one knows they will think about for a long time, a book that leaves a lasting impression. This is such a book and unbelievably a first book by an author who has previously published short stories. In many ways this is not an easy book to read, the tension at times was unbearable, the darkness seemed unrelenting. The characters were all trapped in some way and the way they choose to alleviate their stress was not healthy. Brenda, a mother of an autistic child, whose husband is in prison, uses food, to her own detriment. Hourus, her husband, takes revenge on the death of his father and the ills of his childhood. He is entombed in Black Plains in solitary confinement, a prison with guards and a warden whose sole jobs are to break those within. Sephris, the autistic boy, who cannot find anyway to relate his distress in the land of air, as he calls it. One can feel the love that the author has for these flawed characters, the way she wants the reader to understand how they came to be in these situations. To provide a way She uses magical realism to break the tension, as a way for us to see inside the mind of an autistic child, to go with him into the World of Water, where he can feel safe and relate the thoughts and fears, the questions he has that he cannot express in the land of air.. She uses it as a way for Hourus to escape the inescapable, to connect with the son he has never seen. She shows the reader amazing power of the mind, a mind that will find ways against all odds.She uses it as a way for her characters to find a measure of peace and understanding. An unusual and powerful debut novel, full of wonderful, often beautiful prose, a novel that is filled with intense pain but one that is ultimately full of love or at least understanding, a novel that for me is memorable.ARC from the publisher.

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