Karen Lord’s The Angel at the Gates examines inherited duty

Akashic Books lists October 6 for Karen Lord’s The Angel at the Gates, a 160-page hardcover with ISBN 9781636143156. The Barbadian author’s new speculative novel follows a man returning a family heirloom as he tries to understand his grandfather’s unspoken trauma.

Akashic Books lists October 6 for Karen Lord’s The Angel at the Gates, a 160-page hardcover with ISBN 9781636143156. The Barbadian author’s new speculative novel follows a man returning a family heirloom as he tries to understand his grandfather’s unspoken trauma. Malachi reaches a seaside town threatened by war and

enters a priory whose resident Angel will not let him leave. Its welcome gradually becomes an obligation, as the violence of the past returns in the present. The publisher also lists an October 10 author event at Black Rock Books in Bridgetown. Read the official source. Image: Karen Lord / Akashic Books; official The

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