Looped A Novel
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A remarkably assured and accomplished debut novel that encompasses the bursting life of contemporary Chicago, Looped tells the separate stories of a diverse group of Chicagoans-black, brown, and white, gay, straight, and bi-as their lives unfold in diverging and (occasionally) converging ways over the course of the year 2000. Among the characters are the family of a middle-class black postman whose runaway daughter has just learned she's pregnant; a gifted half-Vietnamese high-schooler whose troubled father spies on the son he abandoned years earlier; a tradition-bound Greek diner owner whose upwardly mobile daughter, embarrassed by her ethnic roots, is snarled in a loveless marriage; a gay chef whose shaky relationship is strained by the visit of his closeted lover's uncle, a Catholic priest; and the motley members of an up-and-coming band shaken by the breakup of its ambitious lead guitarist and his sexually confused songwriter girlfriend. Ambitious, sprawling, engrossing, multifaceted, insightful, and addictively readable, Looped explodes with a life and vitality that mirrors the multicultural reality of twenty-first century Chicago, where the families that sustain us are more likely to be those we've created than those we're born to.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780972456296 |
Publisher: | Agate Publishing |
Imprint: | Agate Bolden |
Pub date: | 25 Feb 2005 |
DEWEY: | 813.6 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 409 |
Weight: | 540g |
Height: | 228mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 23mm |