Bibliograph

Bina, a novel in warnings, Anakana Schofield

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Bina, a novel in warnings, Anakana Schofield

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bina

Oclc number

1153454612

Responsibility statement

Anakana Schofield

Sub title

a novel in warnings

Summary

"Bina is a woman who's had enough and isn't afraid to say so. "I'm here to warn you, not reassure you," she announces at the book's outset. In a series of taut and urgent missives she attempts to set the record of her life straight, and in doing so, to be useful to others. Yet being useful is what landed her in jail. Empathy is her Achilles' heel. Her troubles seem to stem from an injured stranger named Eddie, and multiply when her charity extends from delivering meals to the elderly to working with the dying. No good deed of hers goes unpunished and the costs of her capacity for care are legion: one by one she is denied her livelihood, her health, and her freedom, but her voice continues resolutely, an act of friendship in itself. Bina is an unsettling, thought-provoking novel of formal inventiveness and moral and emotional complexity by a bold and talented writer"--, Provided by publisher

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