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That Hair
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Finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation PrizeA Best Translation of the Year at World Literature TodayThat Hair is a family album of sorts that touches upon the universal subjects of racism, feminism, colonialism, immigration, identity and memory. The story of my curly hair, says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeidas autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the underlying story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics. Mila is the Luandaborn daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white Portuguese father. She arrives in Lisbon at the tender age of three, and feels like an outsider from the jump. Through the lens of young Milas indomitably curly hair, her story interweaves memories of childhood and adolescence, family lore spanning four generations, and presentday reflections on the internal and external tensions of a European and African identity. In layered and luscious prose, That Hair enriches and deepens a global conversation, challenging in necessary ways our understanding of racism, feminism, and the double inheritance of colonialism, not yet fifty years removed from Angolas independence. Its the story of coming of age as a black woman in a nation at the edge of Europe that is also rapidly changing, of being considered an outsider in ones own country, and the impossibility of returning to a homeland one doesnt in fact know.
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