{"product_id":"black-marks","title":"Black Marks","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBlack Marks\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eKirsten Dinnall Hoyte\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781888451849\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eAkashic Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Spiked with humor and expertly rendered, Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte's debut novel depicts the continual struggle a young woman undergoes as she tries to find balance among the multiple cultural worlds she traverses. Delightful, authentic, wise and complex, \u003cem\u003eBlack Marks\u003c\/em\u003e is a vision of what it means to be completely human.\" --Patricia Powell, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Pagoda\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eBlack Marks\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of Georgette Collins, who wakes up one day in her early thirties to discover she had no past. Everyone has had the experience of not quite fitting in at some point in their lives, but Georgette has grown up in between worlds: black and white, gay and straight, wealthy and working class, West Indian and American.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout, Georgette tries to piece together these fractured worlds from her grandmother's stories and her own fragmented memories, but she cannot make sense of her experiences. Each reinvention of herself is more disastrous than the last. Now, Georgette, an African-American librarian, is completely isolated; she is floating, unable to make connections with family, friends, and colleagues. Many mornings she wakes to find a man in her bed with no idea how he got there. Days are spent in a self-created bubble, which both protects her and separates her from others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe narrative weaves back and forth in time, through Georgette's childhood in Jamaica to her teenage immersion in Boston and New York nightlife, and into the reclusive silence of her adulthood, of the library. The story's ambiguities remind the reader that there are not always easy answers for why one person may suffer, and neither are there always identifiable paths to recovery. Although depression and sadness play major roles in Georgette's life, her first-person voice is intelligent, funny, and capable of both warmth and irony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books","offers":[{"title":"Black Marks | Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte | Paperback | 9781888451849 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1576550","offer_id":48313160695960,"sku":"1576550","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61yvKnDBZiL.jpg?v=1773162865","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/black-marks","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}