Walking Through Mirrors Paperback - 1999
by Brian Keith Jackson
A new novel by the author of the award-winning "The View From Here." When Jeremy, a successful New York photographer, is summoned back to Louisiana to bury his father, he finds a suicide, a murder, and a mysterious cardboard box.
First line
It was a breath before the birth of day, a time when even movement was still.
From the rear cover
In his breathtaking debut, The View From Here, Brian Keith Jackson took us inside the heart of black family life in the rural South. Now, in a novel that resonates with pure emotion, he sends photographer Jeremy Bishop back to Elsewhere, Louisiana, for the funeral that marks the end of his father's life -- and the true beginning of his own.
His grandmother, Mama B, called him Patience. Jeremy was, she said, the most agreeable child. He would have liked to tell her that, even while growing up, his hidden wants festered deep inside him. His mother died just hours after his birth, and he was raised by Mama B and his Aunt Jess after his father disappeared. Even after his dad returned one day with his new family, Jeremy kept his distance. But it is a decade later, and Jeremy, now a successful New York photographer, gets a phone call from Louisiana. It is time for Jeremy Bishop to journey the long way home to help bury his father. In the graveyard where his father's body will be laid to rest; in a stranger's appearance at the wake; in a suicide; a murder; and finally inside a cardboard box that had belonged to his father, Jeremy will find himself in ways he never imagined. Conjuring Jeremy's youth in flashbacks as textured as the denim patch on his grandmother's rocking chair, Jackson weaves together past and present in a novel at once astonishing and universally human.
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- Title Walking Through Mirrors
- Author Brian Keith Jackson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Trade Paperback
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Atria Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-08-01
- ISBN 9780671568948 / 0671568949
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 7.94 x 5.32 x 0.71 in (20.17 x 13.51 x 1.80 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1970's
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Louisiana
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Ingram Advance, 08/01/1999, Page 56
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