Pushkin and the Queen of Spades

Name: Pushkin and the Queen of Spades
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Alice Randall
ISBN: 9781433298608

Author: Alice Randall

Narrator: Lisa Renee' Pitts

Unabridged: 12 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 04/20/2009

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Winner of the AudioFile Earphones AwardWindsor Armstrong is a polished, Harvard educated, AfricanAmerican professor of Russian literature. Her son, Pushkin X, is an exceedingly famous profootball player, an achievement that impresses his mother not at all. Even more distressing, however, is that her beloved son has just become engaged to a gorgeous white Russian migr who also happens to be a lap dancer.For Windsor, this is no laughing matter. Determined to get to the source of it, she embarks on a journey into her own rich past. As she moves ever closer to the secret that has cast a shadow over her life, she discovers that the halflies she has fed her son dont add up to the beauty of the truth

About Alice Randall

Alice Randall is a New York Times bestselling novelist, award-winning songwriter, and educator. She is widely recognized as one of the most significant voices in modern Black fiction and has emerged as an innovative food activist committed to reforms that support healthy bodies and healthy communities. She lives in Nashville where she writes country songs.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kiini

This book was slow b/c of the approach the author chose. It is a lot of internal monologue and a cyclical time structure. The book hits its stride about midway when the kaliedescopic stories the author has been telling about her childhood, as well as the kaliedescopic stories she has been telling ab......more

Goodreads review by Anne

I really did not know what to think of this book, or even if I liked it. It's rather dense in places and requires the reader to be fully present and on their toes. I took a long (9 months?) break in the middle of reading before coming back to it and finished it mostly out of stubbornness... but once......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

I thought this was highly amusing. Our main character, Windsor Armstrong, names her son Pushkin after the black Russian writer and has high hopes for him. She disapproves of his life choices, including playing football and dating a white stripper. But she's hiding a few unwise life decisions of her......more