Now Lila Knows

Name: Now Lila Knows
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Elizabeth Nunez
ISBN: 9781705056257

Author: Elizabeth Nunez

Narrator: Lynnette R. Freeman

Unabridged: 7 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/07/2022

Categories: Fiction, African American & Black Fiction, World Literature, Women, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Lila Bonnard has left her island home in the Caribbean to join the faculty as a visiting professor at Mayfield College in a small Vermont town. On her way from the airport to Mayfield, Lila witnesses the fatal shooting of a Black man by the
police. It turns out that the victim was a professor at Mayfield, and was giving CPR to a white woman who was on the verge of an opioid overdose.

The two Black faculty and a Black administrator in the otherwise all-white college expect Lila to be a witness in the case against the police. Unfortunately, Lila fears that in the current hostile political climate against immigrants of color she may
jeopardize her position at the college by speaking out, and her fiancé advises her to remain neutral.

Now Lila Knows is a gripping story that explores our obligation to act when confronted with the unfair treatment of fellow human beings. A page-turner with universal resonance, this novel will leave readers rethinking the meaning of love and empathy.

About Elizabeth Nunez

Elizabeth Nunez is the award-winning author of eight novels. Both Boundaries and Anna In-Between were New York Times Editors' Choices and Anna In-Between won the 2010 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award and the 2011 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers and Barnes & Noble. Nunez also received a NALIS Lifetime Literary Award from the Trinidad & Tobago National Library. She is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, where she teaches fiction writing.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric on January 07, 2023

Good, and the topic is relevant. This book is set in 2014 as the #BLM movement was rising in the US. The story is set in a fictional Vermont elite college that is rocked by a police killing of an African American professor. The main character, Lila Bonnard, witnessed this killing as she just arrived......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on July 04, 2022

"It's not about resentments. It's about righting a wrong that people have been forced to suffer for hundreds of years. It's about justice." Now Lila Knows by Elizabeth Nunez was a compelling and timely read. It was a reflective read that interrogated accountability, racism in academia and social jus......more

Goodreads review by Adrianne on June 01, 2022

Now Lila Knows is a deeply thoughtful meditation on contemporary American issues. Nunez tracks everything from the opioid epidemic to police violence, allowing her to weave literary and social criticism into her moving central narrative.......more

Goodreads review by Ally on January 28, 2024

I had a hard time finishing this book due to the lack of character development and its tendency to hit you on the head with its message. Positives: the content is very important. The various dialogues around race and colonialism is what drew me to the book in the first place and the perspectives prov......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne on October 19, 2023

Being from Vermont, I wanted to identify with and love this book. However, for me that was not the case. The book was much too analytical and clinical, using the words of great philosophers and authors. It felt to me that the author was more interested in moral assessments than in keeping the storyli......more