Confrontations

A Novel

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Pub Date Jan 30 2024 | Archive Date Jan 15 2024
Bloomsbury USA | Bloomsbury Publishing

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A bold, unsettling, surprisingly tender debut novel for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Nightcrawling.

Salomé Atabong is the sixteen-year-old daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother, living in the Netherlands. She arrives at a juvenile detention center to start a six-month sentence for a violent crime, which she did commit but does not regret. Expected to visit with a racist psychologist and perform her apologies, Salomé refuses to atone. But even if Salomé could get home, it would be no refuge: her father has recently been diagnosed with liver cancer, and her elder sister Miriam's main preoccupation is to get out of the village as soon as possible.

After months in the prison system, she realizes she must come to terms with the real reason behind her rage.

Raw and unsentimental yet lyrical, Confrontations captures the paradoxical demands society makes on Black women, the way communities, schools, and the prison system perpetuate racism, and the cost of Black female defiance.

A bold, unsettling, surprisingly tender debut novel for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Nightcrawling.

Salomé Atabong is the sixteen-year-old daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother, living in...


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ISBN 9781639730919
PRICE $26.99 (USD)
PAGES 192

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I loved Bekano’s literary reflections, and circular spiralling prose. I think that this book interrogates race, class and incarceration. Bekono’s circular prose serve a purpose of conveying Salome being stuck within the confines of her situation. I loved the un-sentimentality of this novel and it’s rawness that feels real and purposeful.

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