Confrontations by Simone Atangana Bekono
Category: eBooks
- views: 78
- date: 1 February 2024
- posted by: AD-TEAM

epub | 2.42 MB | English | Isbn:9781639730919 | Author: Simone Atangana Bekono | Year: 2024
Description:
A bold, unsettling, surprisingly tender debut novel for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Nightcrawling.
[b][/b]Salomé Atabong is the sixteen-year-old daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother, living in the Netherlands. She arrives at a juvenile detention center to start a six-month sentence for a violent crime, which she did commit but does not regret. Expected to visit with a racist psychologist and perform her apologies, Salomé refuses to atone. But even if Salomé could get home, it would be no refuge: her father has recently been diagnosed with liver cancer, and her elder sister Miriam's main preoccupation is to get out of the village as soon as possible.
After months in the prison system, she realizes she must come to terms with the real reason behind her rage.
Raw and unsentimental yet lyrical, Confrontations captures the paradoxical demands society makes on Black women, the way communities, schools, and the prison system perpetuate racism, and the cost of Black female defiance.
[b][/b]Salomé Atabong is the sixteen-year-old daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother, living in the Netherlands. She arrives at a juvenile detention center to start a six-month sentence for a violent crime, which she did commit but does not regret. Expected to visit with a racist psychologist and perform her apologies, Salomé refuses to atone. But even if Salomé could get home, it would be no refuge: her father has recently been diagnosed with liver cancer, and her elder sister Miriam's main preoccupation is to get out of the village as soon as possible.
After months in the prison system, she realizes she must come to terms with the real reason behind her rage.
Raw and unsentimental yet lyrical, Confrontations captures the paradoxical demands society makes on Black women, the way communities, schools, and the prison system perpetuate racism, and the cost of Black female defiance.



We need your support!
Make a donation to help us stay online
Bitcoin (BTC)
bc1q08g9d22cxkawsjlf8etuek2pc9n2a3hs4cdrld
Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
qqvwexzhvgauxq2apgc4j0ewvcak6hh6lsnzmvtkem
Ethereum (ETH)
0xb55513D2c91A6e3c497621644ec99e206CDaf239
Litecoin (LTC)
ltc1qt6g2trfv9tjs4qj68sqc4uf0ukvc9jpnsyt59u
USDT (ERC20)
0xb55513D2c91A6e3c497621644ec99e206CDaf239
USDT (TRC20)
TYdPNrz7v1P9riWBWZ317oBgJueheGjATm
Information |
|||
![]() |
Users of GUESTS are not allowed to comment this publication. | ||









