You Were Watching from the Sand
by Juliana Lamy
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Pub Date 19 Sep 2023 | Archive Date Not set
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Description
Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and children who find their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite back at the bizarre with their own oddities. In “belly,” a young woman abandoned by her only living relative makes a person from the mud beside her backyard creek. In “We Feel it in Punta Cana,” a domestic child servant in the Dominican Republic tours through his own lush imagination to make his material conditions more bearable. In “The Oldest Sensation is Anger,” a teenager invites a same-aged family friend into her apartment and uncovers a spate of disturbing secrets about her. Written in a mixture of high lyricism, absurdist comedy, and Haitian cultural witticisms, this is a collection whose dynamism matches that of its characters at every beat and turn.
Advance Praise
"Every sentence Juliana Lamy writes is like a match being struck. Not many authors debut with her clarity of vision, inventiveness, and verbal agility, and I would wager almost anything that You Were Watching from the Sand will mark only the first chapter in an important body of work."—Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
Marketing Plan
Marketing: Pre-pub buzz-building campaign
- Online marketing
- Social media campaign
- Targeted email marketing
- Community outreach
- Text-generated flash fiction campaign ahead of launch
- e-newsletters and websites
- Book club outreach
- Library outreach
- Course adoptions
Publicity:
- Media attention
- Online review and feature attention
- Local author promotion: Iowa City, IA; Boston, MA; Boynton Beach, FL
- Social Media Campaign
- Book & author festival outreach
Social Media:
Twitter: @JulianaLamy
Anticipated Review List:
LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Review of Books, IndependentBookReview.com, The Oxford American, Boston Review, Harvard Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, Electric Literature, Split Lip Magazine, Guernica Magazine, The Rumpus, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Cut
Anticipated Book Tour:
Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs, Miami, Cambridge, Boston, Brookline, Somerville, Iowa City
Footprint Cities:
Iowa City, Cambridge, Boston, Boynton Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781636281056 |
| PRICE | $16.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 176 |
Links
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Kathryn M, Reviewer
Juliana Lamy does a great job in creating a collection of short stories. Each story felt like they were just as strong and realistic. All the characters were what I was hoping for and loved the Haitian culture in this.
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