Arcadia
Bayamack-Tam, Emmanuelle2021
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"Farah moves into Liberty House--an arcadia, a community in harmony with nature--at the tender age of six, with her family. The commune's spiritual leader, Arcady, preaches equality, non-violence, anti-speciesism, free love, and uninhibited desire for all, regardless of gender, age, looks, or ability. On her fifteenth birthday, Farah learns she is intersex, and begins to question the confines of gender, and the hypocritical principles those within and outside the confraternity live by. What, Farah asks, is a man or a woman? What is it to be part of a community? What is the endgame for a utopia that exists alongside refugees seeking shelter by the millions and in a society moving ever farther away from nature and its protections. As Liberty House devolves into a dystopia amidst charges of sexual abuse, it starts to look a lot like the larger world, confused in its fears and selfish hedonism. Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam delivers a magisterial novel, a scathing critique of innocence in the contemporary world"-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
Arcadia / Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam ; translated by Ruth Diver.
Author:
Bayamack-Tam, Emmanuelle, authorDiver, Ruth, translator
Imprint:
New York : Seven Stories Press, [2021]©2021
Collation:
360 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781644210536 (pbk)9781644210536
Dewey class:
842.914
Language:
EnglishFrench
Added title:
BRN:
457781
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | BAYA | Available |