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About this book
Finalist for 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction
Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction
Finalist for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize
Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives.
In Kenan's fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. A retired plumber travels to Manhattan, where Billy Idol sweeps him into his entourage. An architect who lost his famous lover to AIDS reconnects with a high-school fling. Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans.
Shot through with humor and seasoned by inventiveness and maturity, Kenan riffs on appetites of all kinds, on the eerie persistence of history, and on unstoppable lovers and unexpected salvations. If I Had Two Wings is a rich chorus of voices and visions, dreams and prophecies, marked by physicality and spirit. Kenan's prose is nothing short of wondrous.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- When We All Get to Heaven
- I Thought I Heard the Shuffle of Angels’ Feet
- The Eternal Glory That Is Ham Hocks
- Ain’t No Sunshine
- Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
- Mamiwata
- Resurrection Hardware or, Lard & Promises
- The Acts of Velmajean Swearington Hoyt and the New City of God
- Now Why Come That Is?
- God’s Gonna Trouble the Water or, Where Is Marisol?
- Also by Randall Kenan
- Copyright
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