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Perish, September 2023
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Perish, September 2022
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A Novel
Penguin
September 2023
On Sale: August 23, 2023
336 pages
ISBN: 0593185927
EAN: 9780593185926
Kindle: B09MH4YJ47
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From a stunning new voice comes a powerful debut
novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family,
exploring the effects of inherited trauma
and intergenerational violence as the family comes
together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her
deathbed.
Bear it or perish yourself. Those are
the words Helen Jean hears that fateteful night in her
cousin’s outhouse that change the trajectory of her
life.
Spanning decades, Perish tracks
the choices Helen Jean—the matriarch of the Turner
family—makes and the way those choices have rippled
across generations, from her children to her grandchildren
and beyond.
Told in alternating
chapters, Perish follows four members of the
Turner family: Julie B., a woman who regrets her wasted
youth and the time spent under Helen Jean’s thumb;
Alex, a police officer grappling with a dark and twisted
past; Jan, a mother of two who yearns to go to school and
leave Jerusalem, Texas, and all of its trauma behind for
good; and Lydia, a woman whose marriage is falling apart
because her body can’t seem to stay pregnant, as
they're called home to say goodbye to their mother and
grandmother.
This family’s
“reunion” unearths long-kept secrets and forces
each member to ask themselves important questions
about who is deserving of forgiveness and who bears the
cross of blame.
Set in vividly drawn Texas and
tackling themes like trauma, legacy, faith, home, class,
race, and more, this beautiful yet heart-wrenching
novel will appeal to anyone who is interested in the
intricacies of family and the ways bonds can be made,
maintained, or irrevocably broken.
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