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Broken Benevolence: Dr. Naomi Alexander, Book 3 #3 (HC) (2023)
$39.95"Well, in this case, what you don't see, is what you'll get." -Dr. Naomi AlexanderIt's hardly business as usual when cagy psychiatrist, Dr. Naomi Alexander, sleuths her way through trauma counseling in the aftermath of a patient's home invasion.After... -
![Biographical Note:
Jeff Boyd is a former public-school teacher from Chicago and a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Fiction. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner and child.
Review Quotes:
"In this modern age of madness, we're so often made to carry more than we believe we can manage. And it's this struggle--to wake up and persist in the face of promised hardship--that Jeff Boyd so brilliantly captures." --Mateo Askaripour, The New York Times Book Review
"[A] delightful debut...Boyd's writing is preternaturally wise, and his characters come to life with natural dialogue and brutally honest confrontations. This pulses with the beat of life." --Publishers Weekly
" The Weight is filled with haunting observations about romance, isolation and the daunting task of believing in something greater than yourself. Boyd has a grounded and capable hand. This is dialogue that you can actually hear. Powerful, dreamy, and altogether very true." --Kiley Reid, author of the New York Times bestseller and Booker Prize longlist selection Such a Fun Age
"Like Binx Bolling, the hero of Walker Percy's classic The Moviegoer, Jeff Boyd is on a search. And like Binx's, the object of that search is too essential and nebulous and all-encompassing to name. It has to do with love, of course, and human connection, and ultimate truths, but in Boyd's case it extends past the final limits of racism to touch upon the universal existential terrors of an Everyman. Boyd has August Wilson's scope and James Alan McPherson's human heart, but his literary touchstones are wide and catholic, and his passion and intelligence inform every page of his novel The Weight. I think of this book as the announcement of a big new talent and the start of a long and meaningful career." --Joshua Ferris, author of the National Book Award finalist Then We Came to the End and A Calling for Charlie Barnes
"You've never met a fictional character quite like Julian Strickland, the soulful, searching character at the heart of Jeff Boyd's wondrous new novel, The Weight. It's a delight to watch him drum, stumble and sleep his way across the pale, smoky clubs of Portland, Oregon in this moving, comic and prodigious debut." --Jess Walter, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions
"As a reader, Jeff Boyd's writing is the kind you love: he builds a world and inhabits it with round, flawed, real people. His astute observations and wry humor pull you in but his characters make you stay. As a writer, Jeff's writing is the kind of thing that makes you bang your head against the wall wondering, 'How the F did he do that!? How did he make this insane, complicated, thing feel as easy as the riff of a jazz bass line.' In The Weight, Boyd somehow skewers liberal Portland while implicating all of us and, in a truly pertinent way, ask what it means to really be 'accepting of self.'" --Xochitl Gonzalez, author of the New York Times bestseller Olga Dies Dreaming
"Boyd writes beautifully about music and does a superb job of creating characters who love it and each other. Readers will want an encore." --Booklist
Publisher Marketing:
A powerful coming-of-age novel about a twenty-something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon, playing in a rock band on the verge of success while struggling with racism, romance, and the legacy of his strict religious upbringing.
Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone Black man in the hipster dreamland of Portland, Oregon. To his friends, he's the coolest member of the scene: the soulful drummer from Chicago in an indie rock band that's just about to break through. But to himself, he's a sheltered Christian homeschool kid who used to write book reports on Leviticus. A virgin until the night of his marriage, divorced at twenty-four, he's still in disarray two years later--pretending to fit in, wondering if any of his relationships are real, estranged from his family, and struggling to reconcile his relationship with God.
Then he meets Ida Blair, a Black painter at the start of a promising career. They begin a tentative relationship, and Ida seems to offer Julian relief from his confusion. But suddenly she stops responding to his texts. Things only get worse when Julian's best friend mysteriously turns on him, his house burns down, and the band considers breaking up on the eve of their most important show yet. It seems the only thing Julian has left--the only thing he's ever had, really--is the weight he is carrying.
Jeff Boyd's beguiling first novel is a piercing exploration of faith, racial identity, love, and friendship--woven of acid humor, disarming vulnerability, and unforgettable poignance.
Review Citations:
Publishers Weekly 02/27/2023 (EAN 9781668007259, Hardcover)
Booklist 04/01/2023 pg. 27 (EAN 9781668007259, Hardcover)
Contributor Bio:Boyd, Jeff
Jeff Boyd is a former public-school teacher from Chicago and a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Fiction. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner and child.](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-5b0svc/images/stencil/590x590/products/31802/33927/image__83480.1687882422.png?c=2 "Biographical Note:
Jeff Boyd is a former public-school teacher from Chicago and a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Fiction. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner and child.
Review Quotes:
\"In this modern age of madness, we're so often made to carry more than we believe we can manage. And it's this struggle--to wake up and persist in the face of promised hardship--that Jeff Boyd so brilliantly captures.\" --Mateo Askaripour, The New York Times Book Review
\"[A] delightful debut...Boyd's writing is preternaturally wise, and his characters come to life with natural dialogue and brutally honest confrontations. This pulses with the beat of life.\" --Publishers Weekly
\" The Weight is filled with haunting observations about romance, isolation and the daunting task of believing in something greater than yourself. Boyd has a grounded and capable hand. This is dialogue that you can actually hear. Powerful, dreamy, and altogether very true.\" --Kiley Reid, author of the New York Times bestseller and Booker Prize longlist selection Such a Fun Age
\"Like Binx Bolling, the hero of Walker Percy's classic The Moviegoer, Jeff Boyd is on a search. And like Binx's, the object of that search is too essential and nebulous and all-encompassing to name. It has to do with love, of course, and human connection, and ultimate truths, but in Boyd's case it extends past the final limits of racism to touch upon the universal existential terrors of an Everyman. Boyd has August Wilson's scope and James Alan McPherson's human heart, but his literary touchstones are wide and catholic, and his passion and intelligence inform every page of his novel The Weight. I think of this book as the announcement of a big new talent and the start of a long and meaningful career.\" --Joshua Ferris, author of the National Book Award finalist Then We Came to the End and A Calling for Charlie Barnes
\"You've never met a fictional character quite like Julian Strickland, the soulful, searching character at the heart of Jeff Boyd's wondrous new novel, The Weight. It's a delight to watch him drum, stumble and sleep his way across the pale, smoky clubs of Portland, Oregon in this moving, comic and prodigious debut.\" --Jess Walter, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions
\"As a reader, Jeff Boyd's writing is the kind you love: he builds a world and inhabits it with round, flawed, real people. His astute observations and wry humor pull you in but his characters make you stay. As a writer, Jeff's writing is the kind of thing that makes you bang your head against the wall wondering, 'How the F did he do that!? How did he make this insane, complicated, thing feel as easy as the riff of a jazz bass line.' In The Weight, Boyd somehow skewers liberal Portland while implicating all of us and, in a truly pertinent way, ask what it means to really be 'accepting of self.'\" --Xochitl Gonzalez, author of the New York Times bestseller Olga Dies Dreaming
\"Boyd writes beautifully about music and does a superb job of creating characters who love it and each other. Readers will want an encore.\" --Booklist
Publisher Marketing:
A powerful coming-of-age novel about a twenty-something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon, playing in a rock band on the verge of success while struggling with racism, romance, and the legacy of his strict religious upbringing.
Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone Black man in the hipster dreamland of Portland, Oregon. To his friends, he's the coolest member of the scene: the soulful drummer from Chicago in an indie rock band that's just about to break through. But to himself, he's a sheltered Christian homeschool kid who used to write book reports on Leviticus. A virgin until the night of his marriage, divorced at twenty-four, he's still in disarray two years later--pretending to fit in, wondering if any of his relationships are real, estranged from his family, and struggling to reconcile his relationship with God.
Then he meets Ida Blair, a Black painter at the start of a promising career. They begin a tentative relationship, and Ida seems to offer Julian relief from his confusion. But suddenly she stops responding to his texts. Things only get worse when Julian's best friend mysteriously turns on him, his house burns down, and the band considers breaking up on the eve of their most important show yet. It seems the only thing Julian has left--the only thing he's ever had, really--is the weight he is carrying.
Jeff Boyd's beguiling first novel is a piercing exploration of faith, racial identity, love, and friendship--woven of acid humor, disarming vulnerability, and unforgettable poignance.
Review Citations:
Publishers Weekly 02/27/2023 (EAN 9781668007259, Hardcover)
Booklist 04/01/2023 pg. 27 (EAN 9781668007259, Hardcover)
Contributor Bio:Boyd, Jeff
Jeff Boyd is a former public-school teacher from Chicago and a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Fiction. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner and child.")
The Weight
$27.99Biographical Note:Jeff Boyd is a former public-school teacher from Chicago and a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Fiction. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$27.99Subtotal: -
Best of Everything,The: A Novel
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House Woman (HC) (2023)
$28.00When Ikemefuna is put on a plane from Lagos, Nigeria to Sugar Land, Texas, she anticipates her newly arranged All-American life: a handsome husband, a beautiful red-brick mansion, pizza parlors, and dance classes.Desperate to please, she'll happily cater... -
It's Not All Downhill from Here (PB) (2021)
$17.00NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life--from Terry McMillan, the bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove... -
The Book of Night Women (PB) (2010)
$17.00From the author of the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings "An undeniable success." -- The New York Times Book Review A true triumph of voice and... -
Hush Harbor (HC) (2023)
$30.00A resistance group takes America's racial reckoning into its own hands in this powerful, stirringly original debut novel After the murder of an unarmed Black teenager by the hands of the police, protests spread like wildfire in Bliss City, New Jersey. A...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$30.00Subtotal: -
You Were Always Mine (CD) (2023)
$44.99The acclaimed authors of the "emotional literary roller coaster" (The Washington Post) and Good Morning America book club pick We Are Not Like Them return with this moving and provocative novel about a Black woman who finds an abandoned white baby,...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$44.99Subtotal: -
Harlem Renaissance Novels: The Library of America Collection: (Two-Volume Boxed Set) (2011)
$70.00Together, the nine works in Harlem Renaissance Novels form a vibrant collective portrait of African American culture in a moment of tumultuous change and tremendous hope. - Cane, Jean Toomer - Home to Harlem, Claude McKay - Quicksand, Nella Larsen -...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$70.00Subtotal: -
A Right Worthy Woman (CD) (2023)
$39.99In the vein of The Engineer's Wife and Carolina Built, an inspiring novel based on the remarkable true story of Virginia's Black Wall Street and the indomitable Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who became the first Black...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$39.99Subtotal: -
Digging Stars (HC) (2023)
$27.95With admission to The Program, an elite interdisciplinary graduate cohort at the forefront of astronomy and technology, Rosa's dreams are finally within reach. Her research into the cosmos follows in the footsteps of her astronomer father's revolutionary... -
The Emperor of Ocean Park (PB) (2003)
$18.00In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern...