Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Finalist Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Selected as A Best Book of 2016 by: NPR New York Times Editors’ Choice PEN/Robert W. “When the Wangs take the world, we all benefit” ( USA Today).Ī New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Highly entertaining” ( BuzzFeed), this “fresh Little Miss Sunshine” ( Vanity Fair) is a “compassionate and bright-eyed novel” ( New York Times Book Review), an epic family saga, and a new look at what it means to belong in America. Together with their wealth-addicted stepmother, Barbra, they head on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the Upstate New York retreat of the eldest Wang daughter, Saina. So he rounds up two of his children from schools that he can no longer afford and packs them into the only car that wasn’t repossessed. For fans of Crazy Rich Asians: Meet the Wangs, the unforgettable immigrant family whose spectacular fall from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings them together in a way money never could.Ĭharles Wang, a brash, lovable businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, has just lost everything in the financial crisis.
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Brecht’s adaptation, staged in Switzerland in 1948, showed Creon as a Hitlerian tyrant who finally takes Thebes with him down to destruction. Jean Anouilh did a famous version, staged in occupied Paris in 1944, in which the heroine became a symbol of the resistance. Entitled Aaliyah (After Antigone), it shows two office cleaners challenging authority when they find their brother is being deported to Bangladesh by a recognisably vicious home secretary.īefore culture warriors start fulminating about desecration of a classic, one should point out that Antigone has always been open to adaptation. But the most radical rewrite appears to be that by Freedom Studios in Bradford. Both Merlynn Tong’s version at the Mercury in Colchester, which has a female Creon, and Hollie McNish’s at the Storyhouse in Chester emphasise the play’s modern relevance. Given that the heroine defies the Theban king, Creon, by burying her dead brother, Polyneices, maybe the collective noun should be “a disruption of Antigones”. T his October sees a rash of productions based on Sophocles’s Antigone. George Warren’s account of the colony of Surinam includes brief chapters on the climate, natural produce, animals, and, excerpted here, people: African slaves and Caribe Indians.
His only friend is Dennis Guilder (John Stockwell), a popular football player who looks out for Arnie and helps him survive the cruel high school climate. Both King’s novel and John Carpenter’s film adaptation, CHRISTINE, also released in 1983, highlight the evolving roles of women in American society and the difficulty in breaking long standing gender stereotypes.Īrnie is a “dork,” cowed by his overbearing mother Regina (Christine Belford) and picked on by his peers. True to the time-period, this story of female autonomy is framed through the lens of the central male character and as Arnie transitions into manhood, Christine’s powers encourage him to objectify the women in his life and embrace the toxicity of 1950s masculinity. Arnie must battle competing forces telling him what it means to be a man and how he should treat the women in his life. But hidden within this high-octane horror story is a deeper tale of love and friendship in the waning days of adolescence. Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) is a high school senior who finds and fixes up Christine, a 1958 Plymouth Fury that develops murderous autonomy. On the surface, Stephen King’s 1983 novel CHRISTINE is about an evil car with the ability to drive itself. One glance from the school’s king blows my plan up in smoke. Finish Royal Elite School and get into my dream university. □□ □□□□, □□’□ □□□ □ □□□□ □□ □□□. Deviant King: A Dark High School Bully Romance (Royal Elite, Book 1) (Unabridged) Rina Kent 4.3 40 Ratings 21.99 Publisher Description The villain isn’t supposed to be king. So please don’t read this if any of that bothers you. This is a dark high school bully romance, mature new adult, and contains dubious situations that some readers might find offensive. His award -winning book Black & British: A Forgotten History was also made. He has also co-founded and managed television and media production companies in Ireland and UK. He has also written feature length screenplays and directed, edited, composed and/or sound designed short film, feature film and theatre productions. He has 25 years experience writing, directing, producing, editing, photographing and sound designing national and international film, tv and radio productions for broadcasters such as National Geographic, Discovery Channel, BBC, Channel 4, RTE, TG4, CNN, MTV, PBS(USA). Frank is a Film and TV director, producer, editor, music composer, sound designer, and educatorįranks research and practice interests include story, film, tv, radio, music for screen and media, sound, photography, practice as research, creativity, psychology, archive creation and documenting. Additionally, Brooks was nominated for a Critics Choice TV Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television Award and received a Primetime Emmy Award Nomination as a producer on Mahalia. On stage, Brooks starred as Beatrice in The Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Kenny Leon. For her performance, Brooks earned the Actress Award for Television from the Critics Choice Association Celebration of Black Cinema & Television. Brooks starred as the legendary Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in director Kenny Leon’s Mahalia which premiered on Lifetime in April. Danielle Brooks starred as Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson in Netflix’s Emmy nominated series Orange is the New Black, a role that garnered her two NAACP Image Award nominations for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. She also received the Young Hollywood Award for Breakthrough Actress. Next up, Brooks will star opposite John Cena in the HBO Max series Peacemaker, the spinoff series to James Gunn’s upcoming The Suicide Squad movie. When Rowena is snapped by a photographer having a clandestine meeting with a young man, the press goes wild, making all sorts of insinuations about Rowena's moral character. Rowena tells Frankie, they are only words and can't hurt her, but it is clear the words do hurt. Gender politics is to the fore here, and Frankie, her brother Luke and her Dad are caught up in it whether they want to be or not. We enter the lives of Frankie's family in the lead-up to the election and the media maelstrom it entails. Frankie is the kind of person I (and I suspect a lot of other people I know) would have wanted to be friends with at school.įrankie's mum, Rowena, is poised to be the next Premier of Victoria. In Frankie, Hayes has constructed a young woman who is smart, funny, vulnerable and loves Pearl Jam. Not because I felt like I had missed anything, but because I didn't want to let the characters go. When I finished One True Thing, I immediately wanted to read it again. She had a big job ahead of her to equal the emotional impact and engagement of that first effort - and she has absolutely achieved it. For those of you who follow my reviews, it will be no secret that I adored Nicole Hayes's debut novel, The Whole of My World. Kim Stanley Robinson is neither a chronological index of Robinson’s work, nor is it a biography but rather a panning camera which zooms in and out to tastefully pull apart the key themes, messages, and lessons within Robinson’s major works. Markley’s work in categorizing Robinson’s contributions to science fiction is the perfect volume both for an amateur who is new to Robinson and is unsure where to start, and for well-versed academics pursuing research within this field. Robinson’s works of fiction depicting climate, interstellar travel, planetary politics, Martian terraforming, and utopic visions have been a vital backdrop in science fiction over the last 40 years which are only becoming more relevant today. Robert Markley’s Kim Stanley Robinson is a wonderfully crafted and targeted introduction to one of the most significant writers in 20 th century science fiction. And I got to include a photo of Emily on the back cover without the hat and scarf she’s wearing on the front (because she is in Minnesota, after all). Toward the middle of the novel, Claire begins to enjoy falling in love again with Emily, who she already knows well and is also getting to discover again.įor the new edition I wrote an epilogue set ten years after the original story that updates Emily and Claire’s relationship. But Claire also has a lot to learn and figure out as the person she thought was her boyfriend becomes more visibly her girlfriend. Claire is bisexual and Christian and quickly becomes Emily’s biggest ally in her coming out process. In revising and updating the story for this expanded edition, it became clear that I needed to add more scenes between Emily and her girlfriend Claire.īoth are sixteen and in high school in rural Minnesota. While it centers on Emily coming out as a transgender girl, her relationship with her girlfriend Claire is the bedrock of the novel. Today I’m excited to welcome Rachel Gold, author of Being Emily.Īt its heart, Being Emily is as much a love story as a coming out story. |