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December 17, 2022 admin admin Fiction

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” Greenland” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. In 1919, Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammed’s story. Kip has only three weeks until his publisher’s deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other. The similarities don’t end there. Both of their lives have been deeply affected by their confrontations with Whiteness, homophobia, their upper crust education, and their white romantic partners. As Kip immerses himself in his writing, Mohammed’s story – and then Mohammed himself – begins to speak to him, and his life becomes a Proustian portal into Kip’s own memories and psyche. Greenland seamlessly conjures two distinct yet overlapping worlds where the past mirrors the present, and the artist’s journey transforms into a quest for truth that offers a world of possibility.

Brief Summary Greenland by David Santos Donaldson

At the suggestion of a family member, using Audible, I ”read” Greenland by David Santos Donaldson. I was expecting insight into a world of relatively young gay men from parts of the world I do not inhabit. What I found, captivatingly interwoven into the plot, were pearls of wisdom and insight. Donaldson writes convincingly about race, identity, personal agency, relationship, and finding your voice. Despite Kip’s angst, I enjoyed visiting with him and finished the book quickly. Kip’s and Mohamed’s experiences illuminated my strait, female, relatively long life in unexpected ways. I highly recommend this well-written novel.
I look forward to “reading“ David’s next novel. I am sure it will be as descriptive and engaging as this one. I expect it will also awaken in me long-lost memories of endless possibilities.