Can I read That Hair on EtoBox?

That Hair by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is That Hair about?

Finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation PrizeA Best Translation of the Year at World Literature TodayThat Hair is a family album of sorts that touches upon the universal subjects of racism, feminism, colonialism, immigration, identity and memory."The story of my curly hair," says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, "intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the underlying story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics." Mila is the Luanda-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white Portuguese father. She arrives in Lisbon at the tender age of three, and feels like an outsider from the jump. Through the lens of young Mila's indomitably curly hair, her story interweaves memories of childhood and adolescence, family lore spanning four generations, and present-day reflections on the...

Author

Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida

Publisher

Tin House Books

Published

2020

Language

EN