{"product_id":"a-small-gathering-of-bones-isbn-9780807083673","title":"A Small Gathering of Bones","description":"It's 1978, and Dale Singleton is becoming alarmed as his friend, Ian Kaysen, is afflicted with a mysterious and seemingly untreatable illness characterized by pneumonia, lesions, and dementia. This novel of the first days of AIDS is viscerally affecting, as it conveys the shocked puzzlement of those troubled by Ian's condition while simultaneously documenting Jamaican society's struggle to accept the dignity of gay love. Dale's world collapses, yet his experience of being gay in a middle-class culture circumscribed by church, family, and compulsory heterosexuality is hauntingly memorable-and familiar. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In Powell's hands identities that we try to keep separate become intimately entwined . . . the living within the dying, the foreigner within the native born, the male within the female. Her tales unfold like dreams spread out on a table.\"--Danzy Senna, author of \u003ci\u003eCaucasia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Powell combines the same lyrical imagery, piercing insight, and confident narrative sense that made \u003ci\u003eMe Dying Trial\u003c\/i\u003e one of the most impressive debuts . . . Powell writes with subtlety and craft.\"--\u003ci\u003eBoston Phoenix Literary Section\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Small Gathering of Bones\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare portrayal of literary fiction as an artistic whole. No other work of fiction presents the trauma and triumph that AIDS engenders. After Powell's first novel, \u003ci\u003eMe Dying Trial,\u003c\/i\u003e this is a second step off into the universe of a rising new talent.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew England Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003ePatricia Powell is the author of \u003ci\u003eMe Dying Trial, The Pagoda,\u003c\/i\u003e and a forthcoming novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Life.\u003c\/i\u003e Her awards include the Bruce Rossley Literary Award, the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. Powell has taught creative writing at Harvard University, Wellesley College, and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Currently she is Martin Luther King Visiting Professor at MIT. Powell lives in \u003cbr\u003eWatertown, Massachusetts.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304786383077,"sku":"NP9780807083673","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807083673.jpg?v=1767720800","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-small-gathering-of-bones-isbn-9780807083673","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}