Anna In-Between
by Elizabeth Nunez
Publication Date: Sep 01, 2009
List Price: $22.95
Format: Hardcover, 347 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781933354842
Imprint: Akashic Books
Publisher: Akashic Books
Parent Company: Akashic Books
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Anna In-Between is Elizabeth Nunez’s finest literary achievement to date. In spare prose, with laserlike attention to every word and the juxtaposition of words to each other, Nunez returns to themes of emotional alienation, within the context of class and color discrimination, so richly developed in her earlier novels.
Anna, the novel’s main character who has a successful publishing career in the United States, is the daughter of an upper-class Caribbean family. While on vacation in the island home of her birth she discovers that her mother, Beatrice, has breast cancer. Beatrice categorically rejects all efforts to persuade her to go to the United States for treatment, even though it is, perhaps, her only chance of survival. Anna and her father, who tries to remain respectful of his wife’s wishes, must convince her to change her mind.
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