Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities

by Kazim Ali

Book Overview

Eloquent intercultural coming-of-age story

This groundbreaking, transgenre work--part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past--is intensely autobiographical and confessional. Proceeding sentence by sentence, city by city, and backwards in time, poet and essayist Kazim Ali details the struggle of coming of age between cultures, overcoming personal and family strictures to talk about private affairs and secrets long...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819572764
• ISBN13: 9780819572769
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up