Homebodies

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Product Details

Price
$30.00  $27.90
Publisher
Harper
Publish Date
Pages
320
Dimensions
6.2 X 9.1 X 1.3 inches | 1.0 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780063274280

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About the Author

Tembe Denton-Hurst (known on the internet as @tembae) is a book-obsessed beauty and culture writer and author. Currently, she works as a staff writer at New York magazine's The Strategist, where she covers beauty, lifestyle, and books. When she's not writing, Tembe can be found on her couch in Queens, where she lives with her partner and their two cats, Stella and Dakota. Homebodies is her debut novel.

Reviews

"I saw so much of myself in Homebodies, and in Mickey's utterly delicious and sometimes aching story. Mickey made me look back and love my young Black woman self, and I loved her so much for returning me to that place." -- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois

"Homebodies is a modern marvel--Tembe Denton-Hurst's prose is both intimate and hysterical, inflammatory and elegiac. You'll root for Mickey as she takes on the world, questioning and searching its contours, weaving a story we can't help but find our own worlds inside of. Denton-Hurst has written a warm, brilliant novel that's stunning and poignant; Homebodies is wonderfully witty and full of empathy and entirely original." -- Bryan Washington, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot

"Homebodies is a beautiful story on becoming. Denton-Hurst's prose is perfect with an innate attention to detail and astonishing ability to capture the shapes and colors of emotions as she brilliantly illuminates the growing pains of forging one's own path...something which so many of us are still looking to do. This is a deeply felt, assured literary debut by a writer worth watching." -- Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of award-winning novels Here Comes the Sun and Patsy

"Sharp and heartfelt and keenly observed--I devoured this book." -- Katie Cotugno, New York Times Bestselling author of Birds of California

"Homebodies is a sharp and tender exploration of what it takes to make a place for yourself in a world that has not. Denton-Hurst deftly navigates the line between a knowing despair and an openhearted hope, contrasting the challenges Mickey faces from employers, lovers, and relatives who can't always see or name her value with the strength she draws from learning to see herself and the love that has always been available to her. A captivating and illuminating debut." -- Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections

"Denton-Hurst dazzles with her stirring indictment of racism in media and its insidious effects on Mickey. . . Emotionally and politically resonant, this is not to be missed." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Tembe Denton-Hurst's debut novel astutely captures what it's like to fight for yourself in a world that's stacked against you." -- Harper's Bazaar