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4572721Besaydoohttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/besaydoo-9781571315977/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4099986/image.jpg?v=638443256366270000290290MXNMilkweed EditionsInStock/Audiolibros/<p><strong>Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamaras <em>Besaydoo</em> is an elegantly wrought love song to homeas place, as people, as body, and as language.</strong></p><p>A griot is a historian, a living repository of communal legacies with a story pulsing in every blood cell. In Besaydoo, Kamara serves as griot for the Freeborn in Oakland, the Sierra Leonean in California, the girl straddling womanhood, the woman re-discovering herself. I am made from the obsession of detail, she writes, setting scenes from her own multifaceted legacy in sharp relief: the memory of her mothers singing, savory stacks of lumpia, a church where everyone is broken, but trying. A multitudinous witness.</p><p>Kamara psalms from the nexus of many languagesKrio, English, French, poetrys many dialectsto highlight mechanisms not just for survival, but for abundance. I make myth for peace, she writes, as well as for loss, for delight, for kinship, and most of all for a country where Black means steadfast and opulent, and dangerous and infinite. She writes for a new America, where praise is plentiful and Black lives flourish.</p><p>But in <em>Besaydoo</em>, there is no partition between the living and the dead. There is no past nor present. There is, instead, a joyful simultaneitya liberating togetherness sustained by song.</p>...4540767Besaydoo290290https://www.gandhi.com.mx/besaydoo-9781571315977/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4099986/image.jpg?v=638443256366270000InStockMXN99999DIAudiolibro20249781571315977_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9781571315977_<p><strong>Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamaras <em>Besaydoo</em> is an elegantly wrought love song to homeas place, as people, as body, and as language.</strong></p><p>A griot is a historian, a living repository of communal legacies with a story pulsing in every blood cell. In Besaydoo, Kamara serves as griot for the Freeborn in Oakland, the Sierra Leonean in California, the girl straddling womanhood, the woman re-discovering herself. I am made from the obsession of detail, she writes, setting scenes from her own multifaceted legacy in sharp relief: the memory of her mothers singing, savory stacks of lumpia, a church where everyone is broken, but trying. A multitudinous witness.</p><p>Kamara psalms from the nexus of many languagesKrio, English, French, poetrys many dialectsto highlight mechanisms not just for survival, but for abundance. I make myth for peace, she writes, as well as for loss, for delight, for kinship, and most of all for a country where Black means steadfast and opulent, and dangerous and infinite. She writes for a new America, where praise is plentiful and Black lives flourish.</p><p>But in <em>Besaydoo</em>, there is no partition between the living and the dead. There is no past nor present. There is, instead, a joyful simultaneitya liberating togetherness sustained by song.</p>...9781571315977_Milkweed Editionsaudiolibro_9781571315977_9781571315977Yalie SawedaInglésMéxicoNoMINUTE2024-01-09T00:00:00+00:00Milkweed Editions