Elsewhere, California: A Novel (NONE)
by Dana Johnson
Publication Date: Jun 12, 2012
List Price: $15.95
Format: Paperback, 276 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781582437842
Imprint: Counterpoint
Publisher: Counterpoint
Parent Company: Counterpoint
Description of Elsewhere, California: A Novel (NONE) by Dana Johnson
We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnson’s award?winning collection Break Any Woman Down. As a young girl, she and her family escape the violent streets of Los Angeles to a more gentrified existence in suburban West Covina. This average life, filled with school, trips to 7?Eleven to gawk at Tiger Beat magazine, and family outings to Dodger Stadium, is soon interrupted by a past she cannot escape, personified in the guise of her violent cousin Keith.
When Keith moves in with her family, he triggers a series of events that will follow Avery throughout her life: to her studies at USC, to her burgeoning career as a painter and artist, and into her relationship with a wealthy Italian who sequesters her in his glass?walled house in the Hollywood Hills. The past will intrude upon Avery’s first gallery show, proving her mother’s adage: Every goodbye aint gone. The dual?narrative of Elsewhere, California illustrates the complicated history of African Americans across the rolling basin of Los Angeles.
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