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40/100Critics
44/100Scholars
Author:
Kim McLarin
Publisher:
IG Publishing
Date:
February 9, 2021
In her volume in Igâs acclaimed Bookmarked series, author and essayist Kim McLarin shares her appreciation of this seminal novel, demonstrating how its myriad themesâ including relations between men and women (gay and straight, Black and white), the meaning of creativity, and the ecstasy and pain of loveâmirror many of her own life experiences.
What The Reviewers Say
... keen and meditative reflections.
This brief book does much to remind us of the ways that literature lasts. The back and forth between an author, a text and its reader is, or should be, an ongoing one. And Kim McLarin’s bookmarked discussion of the enduring resonance of Another Country—though she does not include or date it in her list of 'Works Cited'—is one writer’s testimonial to how the language lives. The 'obligation beyond herself' is indeed a vital lesson, and one she both teaches and learns..
McLarin expands on her previous essay collection, Womanish, to once again offer cogent insights about identity, racism, sex and sexuality, family and education, reading and writing, and the 'Black, Pentecostal, one-parent, southern existence' from which she emerged.
... [a] discerning work of criticism.
