300 review copies (150 prepub, 150 postpub) sent to reviewers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers, others.Available as an e-ARC on Edelweiss & Netgalley.3-week, 15-blog blog tour with book giveaways.Goodreads and Library Thing giveaway. We will seek to host an author Q&A chat on Goodreads.Promotion at book fairs and trade shows.Promotion in the 2019 Reading Group Choices guide for book clubs.We will seek blurbs from Tayari Jones, Merle Collins, and Yvette Christianse.We will submit the book for relevant and applicable awards.In collaboration with the author, we will plan twitter chats, Facebook Live, a Caffeine.tv chat, guest blog posts, and outreach to book clubs.We will include a book club guide online and in the back of the book.Promotion online via Catalyst's website, email lists (in development) and social media (blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube) with author and publisher interviews, chats, and guest posts.Simultaneous e-book and print release.
Grace's perfect life in Cape Town is undone when her childhood sweetheart unexpectedly reappears after disappearing during an anti-apartheid police riot a decade earlier.
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300 review copies (150 prepub, 150 postpub) sent to reviewers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers, others.Available as an e-ARC on Edelweiss & Netgalley.3-week, 15-blog blog tour with book giveaways.Goodreads and Library Thing giveaway. We will seek to host an author Q&A chat on Goodreads.Promotion at book fairs and trade shows.Promotion in the 2019 Reading Group Choices guide for book clubs.We will seek blurbs from Tayari Jones, Merle Collins, and Yvette Christianse.We will submit the book for relevant and applicable awards.In collaboration with the author, we will plan twitter chats, Facebook Live, a Caffeine.tv chat, guest blog posts, and outreach to book clubs.We will include a book club guide online and in the back of the book.Promotion online via Catalyst's website, email lists (in development) and social media (blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube) with author and publisher interviews, chats, and guest posts.Simultaneous e-book and print release.
Grace's perfect life in Cape Town is undone when her childhood sweetheart unexpectedly reappears after disappearing during an anti-apartheid police riot a decade earlier.
Description
Grace is a literary novel that deals realistically with the way adults who experienced domestic violence as children or drastic and violent loss can be affected by it years later. The novel also explores the legacy of political violence against minority populations in South Africa, in particular the experiences of South African youth who engaged in political protests in the 80s and were subsequently imprisoned, exiled, and disappeared in the government's brutal attempts at suppression. This is a great book-club read and we will support that by advertising it in the Reading Group Choices guide. A great book for readers who have loved books by Alice Walker--which explore the same themes of intergenerational and political violence, specifically in the lives of women.
Awards
Winner of Debut Prize, 2017 University of Johannesburg Prizes for South African writing 2018 (South Africa) Long-listed for Sunday Times (South Africa) Literary Award 2018 (South Africa)
Critic Reviews
“"The novel creates drama while confronting intersecting systemic oppressions and intergenerational trauma by foregrounding its characters' needs, wants, wounds, and aspirations. The prose is taut with both clarity and complexity. A smart, compassionate portrayal of one woman's quest to end the cycle of violence." -- Kirkus Reviews”
"The novel creates drama while confronting intersecting systemic oppressions and intergenerational trauma by foregrounding its characters' needs, wants, wounds, and aspirations. The prose is taut with both clarity and complexity. A smart, compassionate portrayal of one woman's quest to end the cycle of violence." —Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Barbara Boswell is an educator and literary activist. She is an alumna of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she lived for several years, and has taught at universities in both the USA and South Africa. Barbara is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Cape Town, where she teaches Black women's diasporic literature, African feminist literary theory, and gender and sexuality.
Grace is a literary novel that deals realistically with the way adults who experienced domestic violence as children or drastic and violent loss can be affected by it years later. The novel also explores the legacy of political violence against minority populations in South Africa, in particular the experiences of South African youth who engaged in political protests in the 80s and were subsequently imprisoned, exiled, and disappeared in the government's brutal attempts at suppression. This is a great book-club read and we will support that by advertising it in the Reading Group Choices guide. A great book for readers who have loved books by Alice Walker--which explore the same themes of intergenerational and political violence, specifically in the lives of women.
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