EAN: 9781644211038

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An exploration of NYC and America in the burgeoning moments before the start of the Civil War through the eyes of a young biracial girl the highly anticipated new novel from the winner of the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.Corthron a true heir to James Baldwin presents a startlingly original exposure of the complex roots of American racism. Naomi Wallace MacArthur Genius Playwriting Fellow and author of One Flea SpareIn Moon and the Mars set in the impoverished Five Points district of New York City in the years 1857-1863 we experience neighborhood life through the eyes of Theo from childhood to adolescence an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandmothers. Throughout her formative years Theo witnesses everything from the creation of tap dance to P.T. Barnum's sensationalist museum to the draft riots that tear NYC asunder amidst the daily maelstrom of Five Points work hardship and camaraderie. Meanwhile white America's attitudes towards people of color and slavery are shifting painfully transformationally as the nation divides and marches to war.As with her first novel The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter which was praised by Viet Thanh Nguyen Robin D.G. Kelley and Angela Y. Davis among many others Corthron's use of dialogue brings her characters to life in a way that only an award-winning playwright and scriptwriter can do. As Theo grows and attends school her language and grammar change as does her own vocabulary when she's with her Black or Irish families. It's an extraordinary feat and a revelation for the reader.Moon and the Mars [Corthron's] latest masterpiece is an absorbing story of family and community of Africans and Irish of settler and native of slavery and abolition of a city and a nation wracked by Civil War and racist violence of love won and lost. Robin D. G. Kelley author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

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