The Silence Between Shores

von Melvin J. Brown

310 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

We know Gatsby's dream.But we have never seen it from this shore.In postwar America, Isaiah has returned home from serving a country that asked for his sacrifice without promising him an equal place within it. When his path leads him into the glittering world of West Egg, he encounters Jay Gatsby-a man who has built a fortune, a reputation, and perhaps even himself around the belief that the past can be reclaimed.Drawn into the orbit of Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, and the privileged world surrounding them, Isaiah becomes both participant and witness. He sees the parties, the wealth, the longing, and the carefully constructed illusions. But he also sees what others do not: the boundaries beneath the glamour, the quiet calculations of belonging, and the different prices people pay for daring to want more than the world has decided they deserve.The Silence Between Shores reimagines the world of The Great Gatsby through a Black American perspective, transforming a familiar story into a meditation on race, class, love, reinvention, and the mythology of the American Dream.At its heart lies a question that reaches far beyond Gatsby's green light: What if the American Dream was never equally distant from every shore?Familiar shores. New voices. A deeper America.

• Reihe: The VTF Collective
• ISBN: 9798999888488
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published