Unfollowers (Juniper Prize for Fiction)

ISBN: 1625346409

Author: Ruggiero, Leigh Ann

Condition: New

Winner of the 2023 National Indie Excellence Award in Multicultural FictionWinner of the 2022 Forward INDIES Silver Award for Literary FictionFinalist of the 2023 National Indie Excellence Award in New FictionFinalist of the 2023 Eric Hoffer Book AwardBarb Matheson doesnt fit in: not on the Standing Rock Reservation where her mother was born; not at the mission in rural Ethiopia where she grew up; and certainly not at the Pennsylvania church where her husband preaches. Expansive and lyrical, Unfollowers is a tale of religious angst, unrequited love, and the upheaval of racial and economic privilege. Equally adrift on both sides of the Atlantic, Barb must negotiate the distance between white America and Africa, between the spirituality of her ancestors and the straight tones of evangelicalism, and between rules and grace. When a former lover crashes her daughters third birthday party, shes offered the chance to find her way home to Ethiopia, leaving her to choose between a rote life in America and an improvised life abroad.