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We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnson's award--winning collection Break Any Woman Down. As a young girl, she and her family escape the violent streets of Los Angeles to a more gentrified existence in suburban West Covina. This average life, filled with school, trips to 7--Eleven to gawk at Tiger Beat magazine, and family outings to Dodger Stadium, is soon interrupted by a past she cannot escape, personified in the guise of her violent cousin Keith. When Keith moves in with her family, he triggers a series of events that will follow Avery throughout her life: to her studies at USC, to her burgeoning career as a painter and artist, and into her relationship with a wealthy Italian who sequesters her in his glass--walled house in the Hollywood Hills. The past will intrude upon Avery's first gallery show, proving her mother's adage: Every goodbye aint gone. The dual--narrative of Elsewhere, California illustrates the complicated history of African Americans across the rolling basin of Los Angeles.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Elsewhere, California
• Subtitle: A Novel
• Author: Dana Johnson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9781582437842
• ISBN: 158243784X
• ID: 04823333
• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Weight: 284 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 140 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. June 2012

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