{"product_id":"gwendolyn-brooks-maud-martha-faber-editions-2022","title":"Gwendolyn Brooks: Maud Martha (faber Editions) [2022]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S 'A GOOD READ'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuch a wonderful book. Utterly unique, exquisitely crafted and quietly powerful. I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary treasure.' \u003cb\u003eBernardine Evaristo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Maud Martha finds beauty in the brutal formative moments that make us. It is one of my favorite depictions of how a woman comes to trust her eyes.' \u003cb\u003eRaven Leilani\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The quotidian rises to an exquisite portraiture of black womanhood in the hands of one of America's most foundational writers.' \u003cb\u003eClaudia Rankine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Maud Martha reveals the poetry, power and splendor of an ordinary life.' \u003cb\u003eTayari Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Incredible ... She is a quietly radical seer, she is literature itself, a person in the world. It's a rare kind of perfect!' \u003cb\u003eMax Porter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat, \u003c\/i\u003ewhat\u003ci\u003e, am I to do with all of this life?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Maud Martha Brown is a little girl growing up on the South Side of 1940s Chicago. Amidst the crumbling taverns and overgrown yards, she dreams: of New York, romance, her future. She admires dandelions, learns to drink coffee, falls in love, decorates her kitchenette, visits the Jungly Hovel, guts a chicken, buys hats, gives birth. But her lighter-skinned husband has dreams too: of the Foxy Cats Club, other women, war. And the 'scraps of baffled hate' - a certain word from a saleswoman; that visit to the cinema; the cruelty of a department store Santa Claus- are always there .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in 1953 but never published in Britain,\u003ci\u003e Maud Martha \u003c\/i\u003eis a poetic collage of happenings that forms an extraordinary portrait of an ordinary life: one lived with wisdom, humour, protest, rage, dignity, and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brooks, Gwendolyn \u0026 Jefferson, Margo","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53406552949075,"sku":"9780571373253","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/brooks-gwendolyn-jefferson-margo-gwendolyn-brooks-maud-martha-faber-editions-2022-9780571373253-1231183797.jpg?v=1775329356","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/gwendolyn-brooks-maud-martha-faber-editions-2022","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}