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In this wonderfully intelligent novel, Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte explores a young womans complicated struggle to come to terms with her fractured past. Full of vivid characters and lovely sensual details, Black Marks transports its readers effortlessly between the many worlds Georgette inhabits. A splendid debut. Margot Livesey, author of Banishing Verona Black Marks is an absorbing, highly imagined, and beautifully written novel. Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte rewards her readers with a brilliant interweaving of stories that capture a young womans movement into and out of different worlds as she searches for identity and attempts to make sense of her life. William Julius Wilson, author of The Declining Significance of Race Black Marks is the story of Georgette Collins, who wakes up one day in her early thirties to discover she had no past. Everyone has had the experience of not quite fitting in at some point in their lives, but Georgette has grown up in between black and white, gay and straight, wealthy and working class, West Indian and American. Throughout, Georgette tries to piece together these fractured worlds from her grandmother's stories and her own fragmented memories, but she cannot

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Author

Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte

Publisher

Akashic Books, Ltd.

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781888451849

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.27 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13