What's in a Name: Revised Edition
- ISBN-10
- 1693677466
- ISBN-13
- 9781693677465
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-07-06
- Publisher
- Garie McIntosh
- Author
- Garie McIntosh
Description
Newly minted writer, editor and grammar enthusiast, Garie McIntosh has reissued his first novel as an ambitious piece of literary fiction. A jaw-dropping novel, What's in a Name is about the power of secrets, the people who wield such sometimes inexpressible power and the women haunted by those secrets. The author is now reintroducing the story, while establishing himself as a storytelling communicator. Also, he introduces readers to his forthcoming The Barred-Spiral Trilogy, which will feature two of his other upcoming novels. They will be linked by a theme—creating a thematic trilogy. What's in a Name will take readers on an incredible journey marked by the author's commanding, powerful and unforgettable use of language. The novel itself is a searing journey that intimately portrays the lives of seven women. A must-read, it will change the way we view secrets, what we think of them and ultimately, how we address them, even the women who keep them. Story summary The day turns freezing and dark, a heinous crime occurs and abandonment ensues. It is the last day of school for a twelve-year-old girl named Christine in 1994 in Toronto, Canada. Twenty-one years later, she finally realizes that her silence about the meaning of her other name, which her mother gave to her on her death bed, threatens her survival. She has formed a compromise through her new name, Lena, to survive the events of her childhood. Accompanied by her husband, she takes the trip of her life to a paradisaical landscape, Jamaica, where she meets a woman who knows about compromising. Christine discovers that both a woman's compromise and her retraction of that compromise can be not only courageous but also dazzlingly infelicitous. That infelicity is found in the name of a seventy-four-year-old Jamaican woman who now calls herself Dell-Dell. Justification In Canada and Jamaica, the silent women of What’s in a Name can no longer remain so. In this epic tale that details each woman’s shocking justification for her own silence, be mesmerized when one of them unbridles “herself with her secret for some breaking news of her own.” Mystery Each woman’s name is like the cover art that wraps to the back of the book, in that what each is rooted in could be “the effect of breeze having manipulated leaves into form; leaves having manipulated light with equal savvy.” The unspeakable The women have spoken, and they must be heard. But for one of them, Dell-Dell, speaking by itself is not enough, nor is her name, so she commits an unspeakable act to solidify her new name. She reminds us that every woman knows her own sorrows.
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