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A QPB and BOMC selection. The author's previous novel, 1959, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Bird Kinkaid is an African-American woman who has recently been plagued by nightmares: It is a month after she witnessed Alex, her closest friend, plunge eight stories to her death on the sidewalk below and her grief has turned into obsession. Was Alex killed or was it a suicide? Was it an accident or did the white art critic and sometimes lover Frank Burton push her to her death? The two women had an intense friendship, their lives intertwined by shared space, history, friends (and occasionally lovers), and a passion for art. Alex's death shatters Bird, compelling her to search for answers to her friend's death amidst the disparate strands of Alex's quixotic life. When she locates a series of bizarre video tapes among Alex's belongings, in which she discusses her friends, her artwork, and her turbulent love life, Bird has the key to solving both the mystery of her friend's death and her own long-hidden demons.Alive with wit and sensibility, Maker of Saints is a fascinating and provocative novel about love, art, jealousy, and friendship in a funky, glitzy, New York demimonde.
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Set in the hothouse world of the Manhattan art scene, this second novel by Thulani Davis combines a haunting examination of modern melancholia with a good old-fashioned murder investigation. The protagonist is Bird, whose closest friend Alex Decatur has just died as a result of a fall--or was she pushed?--from a window. Alex's defenestration, and Bird's suspicions as to the involvement of her lover Frank Burton, an art critic who has savaged Bird's own paintings, sets the plot in motion. Bird is a bumbling gumshoe, but her obsession with Alex's death takes her further and further into her own sense of loss and stasis. This reflective and up-to-the-minute work hinges on Bird's search for a way back into her art--and her life.
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Thulani Davis teaches writing at Barnard College. Also a poet, playwright, librettist, and Grammy winner, she lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0140267352
- ISBN 13 9780140267358
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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