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008			220411s2022 nyu 000 1 eng
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020			_a9781635420869
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100	1		_aScego, Igiaba, _eauthor. _976666
245	1	4	_aThe Color Line
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bOther Press, _c[2022]
300			_a521 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aOriginally published in Italian as La linea del colore in 2020 by Bompiani, Milan.
520			_a"Inspired by true events, this gorgeous, haunting novel intertwines the lives of two Black female artists more than a century apart, both outsiders in Italy. It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for Black women, but she didn't let that stop her. The daughter of a Chippewa woman and an African-Haitian man, Lafanu had the rare opportunity to study, travel, and follow her dreams, thanks to her indomitable spirit, but not without facing intolerance and violence. Now, in 1887, living in Rome as one of the city's most established painters, she is ready to tell her fiancé about her difficult life, which began in a poor family forty years earlier. In 2019, an Italian art curator of Somali origin is desperately trying to bring to Europe her younger cousin, who is only sixteen and has already tried to reach Italy on a long, treacherous journey. While organizing an art exhibition that will combine the paintings of Lafanu Brown with the artworks of young migrants, the curator becomes more and more obsessed with the life and secrets of the nineteenth-century painter. Weaving together these two vibrant voices, Igiaba Scego has crafted a powerful exploration of what it means to be "other," to be a woman, and particularly a Black woman, in a foreign country, yesterday and today"-- _cProvided by publisher.
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _972086
700	1		_aCullen, John, _d1942- _etranslator. _976667
700	1		_aConti, Gregory, _d1952- _etranslator. _976668
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aScego, Igiaba, 1974- _tColor line _dNew York, NY : Other Press, [2022] _z9781635420876 _w(DLC) 2022010841
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