You Were Watching from the Sand by Juliana Lamy
You Were Watching from the Sand by Juliana Lamy
English | 2023 | General Fiction
Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and children who find their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite back at the bizarre with their own oddities.
In “belly,” a young woman abandoned by her only living relative makes a person from the mud beside her backyard creek. In “We Feel it in Punta Cana,” a domestic child servant in the Dominican Republic tours through his own lush imagination to make his material conditions more bearable. In “The Oldest Sensation is Anger,” a teenager invites a same-aged family friend into her apartment and uncovers a spate of disturbing secrets about her.
Written in a mixture of high lyricism, absurdist comedy, and Haitian cultural witticisms, this is a collection whose dynamism matches that of its characters at every beat and turn.
You Were Watching from the Sand
The Oldest Sensation Is Anger
Sylpha
Manticore
We Feel It in Punta Cana
Eli
Open House
Wynwood
Muscle Memory
July in New Orleans
belly
mermaids!
