{"product_id":"discretion-9781617755453","title":"Discretion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Refreshingly ambitious in its intellectual scope.\" --\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A complex portrait of a love triangle by a gifted writer.\" --\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet amongst the struggles of American, Caribbean, and African diplomacy in the late 1980s, Discretion follows the harrowing journey of Oufoula Sindede, a diplomat of rough beginnings, who discovers his desires may be out of his control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDutifully married to lovely Nerida, Oufoula goes through the motions of marriage, formally keeping his distance from the woman with whom he shares his bed. And yet there is a deeper, buried passion within him that will lead him to question which values he holds sacred and which can be sacrificed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite his quiet marriage, the memory of a fiery love affair triggers Oufoula to entangle himself in the life of another woman, a Jamaican-born painter named Marguerite. Soon he discovers that Marguerite is nothing like any of his quick old flames or his gentle wife, Nerida--Marguerite is much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so begins a whirlwind affair, spanning over twenty years, between a young woman who wants order and love and a man who is torn between the honors of his profession and his dishonorable love life; the old African customs of polygamy and the American dream; and the passion for a mistress and the duty to his wife. Nunez's heartbreaking fourth novel questions the customs we think we know with the truths that passion and love reveal about ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Nunez\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning author of a memoir and nine novels, four of them selected as \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice. Her two most recent books are \u003ci\u003eNot for Everyday Use\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir, which won the 2015 prestigious Hurston Wright Legacy Award for nonfiction, and the novel \u003ci\u003eEven in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, a contemporary version of Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e. Her other novels are: \u003ci\u003eBoundaries\u003c\/i\u003e (nominated for the 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Fiction); \u003ci\u003eAnna In-Between\u003c\/i\u003e (PEN Oakland Award for Literary Excellence and long-listed for an IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award); \u003ci\u003eProspero's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e (2010 Trinidad and Tobago One Book, One Community selection, and the 2006 Florida Center for the Literary Arts One Book, One Community); \u003ci\u003eBruised Hibiscus\u003c\/i\u003e (American Book Award); \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Limbo Silence\u003c\/i\u003e (Independent Publishers Book Award); \u003ci\u003eGrace\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eDiscretion\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWhen Rocks Dance\u003c\/i\u003e. Nunez received her PhD from New York University and is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, where she teaches courses on Caribbean Women Writers and Creative Writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50360637784338,"sku":"9781617755453","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2d0c668d-b2e4-4b8a-9eea-2234473c57ca.jpg?v=1728364567","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/discretion-9781617755453","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}