Backstitch
Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili
feb 2027 · Pan Macmillan
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'A powerful and wise novel . . . read this now' – Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me
Before the little girl became a Missing Child, she was Jouvay Marcelin from Flatbush . . .
1996. Serenity Marcelin is still reeling from the recent loss of her beloved mother when she agrees to take her six-year-old daughter, Jouvay, to carnival.
There, in the pulsing heat of the crowd, Serenity loses her grip on Jouvay's hand for a second, and the little girl disappears into the night.
Close to losing hope, the arrival of an ancestral ghost in her small apartment convinces Serenity that the key to this mystery lies in her family's shocking past . . .
Told through three generations of the Marcelin family, and moving from Haiti during the US occupation to the vibrant streets of New York, Backstitch weaves together the intimate secrets of a family with the sweeping history of a nation.
'A novel of extraordinary tenderness' – Nina McConigley, author of How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
Before the little girl became a Missing Child, she was Jouvay Marcelin from Flatbush . . .
1996. Serenity Marcelin is still reeling from the recent loss of her beloved mother when she agrees to take her six-year-old daughter, Jouvay, to carnival.
There, in the pulsing heat of the crowd, Serenity loses her grip on Jouvay's hand for a second, and the little girl disappears into the night.
Close to losing hope, the arrival of an ancestral ghost in her small apartment convinces Serenity that the key to this mystery lies in her family's shocking past . . .
Told through three generations of the Marcelin family, and moving from Haiti during the US occupation to the vibrant streets of New York, Backstitch weaves together the intimate secrets of a family with the sweeping history of a nation.
'A novel of extraordinary tenderness' – Nina McConigley, author of How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
'A powerful and wise novel . . . read this now' – Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me
Before the little girl became a Missing Child, she was Jouvay Marcelin from Flatbush . . .
1996. Serenity Marcelin is still reeling from the recent loss of her beloved mother when she agrees to take h...
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Idrissa Simmonds-Nastilli is the recipient of the Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Award and the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in poetry, as well as co-editor of BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Books). Her work has appeared in Vogue.com, LitHub, WIRED Magazine, Black Renaissance Noire, Fourteen Hills Press, Room Magazine, Adirondack Review and O: The Oprah Magazine. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Poets House, and VONA/Voices, and holds an MFA in fiction from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is the curator of Brunch & Word, a bi-coastal literary salon, and lives in Oakland, CA with her family.
Idrissa Simmonds-Nastilli is the recipient of the Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Award and the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in poetry, as well as co-editor of BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Books). Her work has appeared i...
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