About this title: When Hilton was just a boy, his grandmother gave her life to save him from drowning, an act that resurfaces to haunt him 30 years later. As nightmares begin to plague Hilton, his wife, a judge, begins to receive racist hate mail from someone she has prosecuted.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780060172503ISBN:0060172509
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780060172503ISBN:0060172509
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"I recently re-read this one when my public library finally added a copy to its collection. It was just as good and chilling as I remembered it. Excellent book."
"Chadburn, Melissa Due, T., (1996), The Between, Harper Collins, New York, NY Once again Due navigates the space between reality and speculation with the type of precision and empathy that only someone of the highest level of sensitivity can accomplish. An indication of a truly gifted writer. It's what makes me want to (or proud to) know this person. Personally I find it a fine balance between this and an almost psychic capacity. This is what marks the difference between simply being a transcriptionist for our characters and avoiding injecting ourselves on the page by intervening or orchestrating. This is truly intelligent speculative fiction. Due gives her characters redeeming qualities and is even handed in a world that is so uneven. The foods, the love, the cultural awareness, handling large political topics that can be complicated and daunting but come off as effortless. By this I mean that there's air and room in what could otherwise prove to be truly heavy topics. This is a story about a man that survives in a strange place between life and death and is transported there through his dreams. However within this story there is a story of an African American man that grew up in the Florida south and after going to the University of Miami and traversed the ground of academia has changed his diction and moved to a gentrified neighborhood. This is also the story of a successful Black family being threatened by a white supremecist. Due also honestly explores the tension in the relationships between Blacks and Latinos in Miami, and tackles heavy topics like AIDS, drug use, and homelessness. It's notable to me that the genre of black speculative fiction survives and operates on the basis that the reader is entering a contract with the author to accept whatever world it is the author creates. That the author can tell you in this particular world time travel is possible or animals speak or power is distributed by way of weather or whatever thing it is they want and we accept it, yet still I find the truths revealed here sometimes much more difficult to accept or traverse. This to me is what makes this genre so revolutionary. The fact that all the readers are not just wrapping their minds around time travel but a Huxtablesque non drinking, non drugging elite black family that are struggling with the same marital problems you are. It reminds me of a poem Alice Walker wrote: It is true I've always loved the daring ones Like the black young man Who tried to crash all barriers at once, wanted to swim At a white beach (in Alabama) Nude.
-In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
The most hope I was able to draw from this novel from a craft perspective is the Acknowledgements page in the back. It starts, "I always knew I would publish a book someday. I just never imagined it would be today." To me, that such a gifted person would even think this gave me promise not only that there is a space somewhere for my work but that there are still people out there that recognize good literature and will continue to feed us with it. The thought that this novel could have escaped the world is frightening the fact that it exists gives me a renewed sense of hope. Read it."
"Due is a very intriguing author, her works are dark and erotic with a lot of mystery thrills. Her endings tend to be a bit weak but the stories are still engaging and entertaining, and often time very eerie"
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