Speaking of Summer, Kalisha Buckhanon
Speaking of Summer, Kalisha Buckhanon
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Speaking of Summer

Author: Kalisha Buckhanon

Narrator: Karen Chilton

Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/30/2019


Synopsis

A sister seeks to uncover the truth about her twin’s disappearance in this critically acclaimed novel hailed as “a powerful song about what it means to survive as a woman in America” (Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award winner)

On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer’s twin sister, Summer, walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again. The door to the roof is locked, and the snow holds only one set of footprints. Faced with authorities indifferent to another missing Black woman, Autumn must
pursue the search for her sister all on her own.

With her friends and neighbors, Autumn pretends to hold up through the crisis.

But the loss becomes too great, the mystery too inexplicable, and Autumn starts to unravel, all the while becoming obsessed with the various murders of local women and the men who kill them, thinking their stories and society’s complacency toward them might shed light on what really happened to her sister.

In Speaking of Summer, critically acclaimed author Kalisha Buckhanon has created a fast-paced story of urban peril and victim invisibility, and the fight to discover the complicated truths at the heart of every family.

“Powerful.”—Washington Post

About Kalisha Buckhanon

Kalisha Buckhanon’s first novel, Upstate, won an American Library Association Alex Award and was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Debut Fiction. Terry McMillan selected her to receive the first Terry McMillan Young Author Award in 2006. A recipient of a 2001 Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship and an Andrew Mellon Fellow, Buckhanon frequently teaches writing and speaks throughout the country. She has a M.F.A. in creative writing from New School University in New York City, and both a B.A. and a M.A. in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. She was born in 1977 in Kankakee, Illinois.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

i’m not sure i would categorize this as a “literary thriller” or even “fast-paced” as the synopsis claims—to read this one quickly does a disservice to its subject matter, which is more important and necessary than most books classified as “thrillers” typically contain. it is, technically, a missing......more

Goodreads review by Amiee

I didn’t hate this book but the blurb made me feel like I wasn’t reading the same book! This is NOT a thriller. I had sorta guessed the twist relatively early. The bulk of the book is finding oneself and dealing with trauma. Well written but the blurb was incredibly misleading.......more

Just finished Speaking of Summer and all I can say is wow - it was breathtaking and beautiful - and as someone with an identical twin (and some of the other issues from the book), I could so very much relate This book kept me reading the entire time and I had no idea of the twist coming Now I must r......more