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An exploration of NYC and America in the burgeoning moments before the start of the Civil War through the eyes of a young, biracial girl—the highly anticipated new novel from the winner of the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.'Corthron, a true heir to James Baldwin, presents a startlingly original exposure of the complex roots of American racism.'—Naomi Wallace, MacArthur'Genius'Playwriting Fellow and author of One Flea SpareIn Moon and the Mars, set in the impoverished Five Points district of New York City in the years 1857-1863, we experience neighborhood life through the eyes of Theo from childhood to adolescence, an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandmothers. Throughout her formative years, Theo witnesses everything from the creation of tap dance to P.T. Barnum's sensationalist museum to the draft riots that tear NYC asunder, amidst the daily maelstrom of Five Points work, hardship, and camaraderie. Meanwhile, white America's attitudes towards people of color and slavery are shifting—painfully, transformationally—as the nation divides and marches to war.As with her first novel, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, which was praised by Viet Thanh Ng

Author

Kia Corthron, Corthron

Publisher

Seven Stories Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781644213162

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction