When She Woke (First Edition)

Jordan, Hillary

ISBN 10: 1565126297 / ISBN 13: 9781565126299

Published by Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, 2011

About this Item

First edition. First printing (with full number line ending in 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. Jacket has some very slight wear to edges. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. The author's second book, a novel, after the novel MUDBOUND.

Seller Inventory # Fiction-Jordan

Bibliographic Details

• Title: When She Woke (First Edition)
• Publisher: Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565126297
• ISBN 13: 9781565126299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 5W x 8H x 1D inches 5 inches width by 8 inches height by 1 inches depth
• Weight: 1 pound

About this title

Synopsis

Bellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan’s provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed―their skin color is genetically altered to match the class of their crimes―and then released back into the population to survive as best they can. Hannah is a Red; her crime is murder.

In seeking a path to safety in an alien and hostile world, Hannah unknowingly embarks on a path of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith.

About the Author

Hillary Jordan is the author of the novels Mudbound (2008) and When She Woke (2011), as well as the digital short “Aftermirth.”

Mudbound won the 2006 Bellwether Prize, founded by Barbara Kingsolver to recognize socially conscious fiction, and a 2009 Alex Award from the American Library Association. It was the 2008 NAIBA Fiction Book of the Year and was long-listed for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Paste magazine named it one of the Top Ten Debut Novels of the Decade. Mudbound has been translated into French, Italian, Serbian, Swedish, and Norwegian, and the film version is forthcoming in fall 2017.

When She Woke was long-listed for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a 2012 Lambda Literary Award finalist. It has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Chinese complex characters.

Jordan has a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. She grew up in Dallas, Texas, and Muskogee, Oklahoma, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.