![]() ![]() Solomon frames Liselle’s narrative around hosting one last dinner party for Winn’s supporters. Liselle is Black and from their town of Philadelphia Winn is the son of white northeasterners. It begins in the present day, where Liselle Belmont’s husband, Winn, has just lost his primary bid to run for a congressional seat. The book takes place over two main time periods. If you are willing to extend yourself slightly and view the book as in conversation with Lorde, Woolf, and others, then of course there’s something much deeper afoot. It’s quite a flat, meditative, unassuming story on the surface. This is a novel where, if you completely ignore the intertexuality, you might walk away from it feeling like Asali Solomon hasn’t done anything. Dalloway, and while I suppose I see that comparison it’s less interesting to me given how little I remember of the book). (A lot of other reviews are also comparing it to Mrs. ![]() All I can say is that I am glad I read at least one book by Audre Lorde before reading The Days of Afrekete, which from its title to its tropes is steeped in Lorde’s work. Back in a previous life when I was an English student in university, we learned about something called intertextuality, which loosely put is the relationship among various texts. ![]()
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