Blue Hour
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- Paperback published on 29/08/2024
- Page count: 160 pages
- ISBN: 9780857308771
Why we love it
A photographer, an infertile mother, a bi-racial woman – the threads of our protagonist’s identity intersect in this intense and poetic debut. Blue Hour is a lyrical meditation on grief, memory, and the passage of time. The novel unfolds in delicate, evocative prose. Sentences are short, precise, packed with meaning, urging you to pause and reflect, even as you’re compelled to keep reading. It’s a profound exploration of loss, and the ambivalence of motherhood as an artist living in a racist America. Harrison’s writing captures the weight of this emotional journey with a grace that’s both powerful and tender. The Blue Hour is the twilight period when day meets night. It’s a time of transition and in-between. This book beautifully captures that liminal space, where life and death, past and present, are in constant flux. It’s a novel that lingers with you long after you’ve turned the last page.
Synopsis
What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma and an unravelling America? What it's always been - a love song. Our narrator is a gifted photographer, an uncertain wife, an infertile mother, a biracial woman in an America that's coming undone. As she grapples with a lifetime of ambivalence about motherhood, yet another act of police brutality makes headlines, and this time the victim is Noah, a boy in her photography class.
Unmoored by the grief of a recent, devastating miscarriage and Noah's fight for his life, she worries she can no longer chase the hope of having a child, no longer wants to bring a Black body into the world. Yet her husband Asher - contributing white Jewish genes alongside her Black-Japanese ones to any potential child - is just as desperate to keep trying. Throwing herself into a new documentary on motherhood and making secret visits to Noah in the hospital, this is when she learns she is, impossibly, pregnant.
As life shifts once more, she must decide what she dares hope for the shape of her future to be.
About the author
TIFFANY CLARKE HARRISON writes about your feelings. The ones that feel good, the ones that don’t, and definitely the ones you don’t want anyone to know.
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