· Cole Lavalais’s debut novel, Summer of the Cicadas, had me from page one; more accurately, page two. “She sharpened Cecilia’s preferred poultry knife until the mildest touch to its edge yielded a perfectly formed line of blood across her fingertip. Summer of the Cicadas deals with a range of issues from mental illness, the legacy of African-American fraternities and sororities, the challenges of being a homosexual in a closed community, and unplanned pregnancy. Yes, all of that. Lavalais handles all these issues with care and writes about them like a master craftsman.5/5(6). · Summer of the Cicadas is a journey into the haunting world of Viola "Vi" Ikewe Moon. A fragile Viola Moon begins her freshman year at AM University after a compulsory stay at a mental health center, hoping to reinvent herself by escaping south to a small black college.
Cole Lavalais. Cole Lavalais. Summer of the Cicadas, now available on Kindle. Discussing a return to the stories that fostered a love of literature, with Cole Lavalais' Summer of the Cicadas On SUMMER OF THE CICADAS and one reader's love for and return to the power of black women's writing. In Cole Lavalais' debut novel Summer of the Cicadas, Viola "Vi" Moon hopes to leave her experience at a mental health facility behind when she enrolls in a small black college in the south, but the stability she hoped she'd gain fractures more quickly than she anticipated.
URL. Cole Lavalais writes fiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Obsidian, Apogee, Warpland, Tidal Basin Review, Aquarius Press, and others. She has been awarded writer residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and The Noepe Center for the Literary Arts. She is a fellow of the Kimbilio Center for Black Fiction, VONA, and the. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all.” And so, too, does the fiction of debut novelist Cole Lavalais, a lifelong resident of Chicago, express true subjectivity in her Summer of the Cicadas. Over the course of weeks during the early spring, Lavalais and I exchanged letters about literature, history, family, and the artists who helped her along. Summer of the Cicadas () Fiction bltadwin.ru pages bltadwin.ru Summer of the Cicadas is a journey into the haunting world of Viola "Vi" Ikewe Moon. A fragile Viola Moon begins her freshman year at AM University after a compulsory stay at a mental health center, hoping to reinvent herself by escaping south to a.
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