Amanda Boyden duikt in haar schrijven in de duistere hoeken van de menselijke psyche en verkent complexe karakterdynamiek. Haar stijl is rauw en meeslepend, en raakt vaak thema's aan als verlangen, verslaving en de zoektocht naar identiteit. Boyden creëert levendige, vaak verontrustende beelden die de lezer lang na de laatste pagina bijblijven. Haar werken zijn een gedurfde verkenning van de menselijke ervaring.
This memoir is unflinching, raw, sometimes hilarious, sometimes painful-the self-portrait of a woman unafraid to scream to the universe: I survived this! Dog tails Boyden from childhood to adult heartbreak, from a devastating rape as a young woman to the crushing end of her marriage, destroyed by infidelity and another woman's pregnancy.
This memoir is unflinching, raw, sometimes hilarious, sometimes painful-the self-portrait of a woman unafraid to scream to the universe: I survived this! Dog tails Boyden from childhood to adult heartbreak, from a devastating rape as a young woman to the crushing end of her marriage, destroyed by infidelity and another woman's pregnancy.
From the author of the acclaimed debutPretty Little Dirtycomes a complex, seductive novel about race and culture, set in New Orleans. Babylon Rollingis a glittering, gritty, unflinching novel of five families living along an Uptown block in the year before Hurricane Katrina. Told in numerous voices, it explores what happens when forces collide in the boozy, humid city that care forgot. At once an exploration of ethnicity and a portrait of a city on the edge of annihilation,Babylon Rollingis a brave and masterful novel.