Review:
A novel of immense depth and tenderness. Townsend's prose recalls the music of Toni Morrison, and Saint Monkey takes us on a soulful and deeply satisfying journey into the heart of Appalachia, and beyond. --Samrat Upadhyay, author of Arresting God in Kathmandu
A novel of immense depth and tenderness. Townsend s prose recalls the music of Toni Morrison, and Saint Monkey takes us on a soulful and deeply satisfying journey into the heart of Appalachia, and beyond. --Samrat Upadhyay, author of Arresting God in Kathmandu"
Saint Monkey is an absolute marvel of a book. Jacinda Townsend is dazzling as she transports the reader to a different time and place the 1950s, rural Kentucky, and Harlem at the height of the jazz era. Two young girls, Audrey and Caroline, fight for a place in the world and, though their paths at times diverge, their journeys and this writer will utterly captivate you. --Roxanne Gay, author of Ayiti"
This is a breathtakingly insightful, suspenseful, and gorgeously realized novel of cruelty and sorrow, anger and forgiveness, improvisation and survival, and the transcendent beauty of nature and art. --Donna Seaman"
Impressive. --Carmela Ciuraru"
Takes us backstage at the Apollo and into the smoky, late-night clubs where the art of jazz is fashioned before our eyes The reader is buffeted by the transformative waves of race and music in America. --Jonathan Odell"
Vivid. --Kasia Hopkins"
Captures the imagination and the heart. --Jacinta Howard"
[A] novel to curl up with Irresistible. "
An absolute marvel of a book. Jacinda Townsend is dazzling as she transports the reader to a different time and place. --Roxanne Gay, author of Ayiti"
About the Author:
Jacinda Townsend studied at Harvard University and Duke University Law School before receiving her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and teaches creative writing at Indiana University. Saint Monkey is her first novel.
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