

Pushkin and the Queen of Spades
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
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
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.
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
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
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