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Jus Breathe
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.99
ISBN13: 9781958901038
Publisher: Liminal Books
Published: Oct 11 2022
Pages: 410
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
It started the day she heard Daddy slur, She ain't mine. You had the nerve to name her Dawn. Look at her! You shudda named her Midnight! Then Daddy left . . . for good. And the loving music that had filled Dawn's life went silent.
That was the day that a Midnight Duckling appeared in the mirror, took up residence in her chest, and controlled her ability to breathe. That was the day she learned to recognize leaving time . . . her superpower.
Couched in speculation, Jus Breathe is the tale of a young Black woman's struggle to defy her inner Duckling and embrace her true self. Set in New York City during the turbulent sixties, it's an improbable love story with precarious impulses, secret pasts, and inner demons.
Dawn, a survivor, flees her stepfather's violent home. While struggling to go to college, she perfects sofa-surfing and hones her ability to leave situations in an instant. But in the mist of the chaotic uprising that followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, serendipity spins Dawn into Danny's world.
Toxically in love, no longer a leaver, Dawn realizes that in order to survive, she must break free of Danny's dominance. But that Duckling, who's allied with Danny, threatens to squeeze the life-breath from her if she dares to leave . . . that ugly, midnight-black Duckling, she has to kill.
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