''Givhan, who, like her protagonist, is a poet, paints a surrealist canvas with vivid colors, even invoking images from artists such as Frida Kahlo and Remedios Varo. The richness of her language and her eye for nuance animate her depictions of both the bleak exterior landscape of California's Imperial Valley and the bleak interior landscape of Bianca's damaged soul. Through it all, Givhan has forged a compelling tension between psychological drama and romance that makes for a riveting read.'' —BookPage
*MAGICAL BOOK & CREATURE GIVEAWAY*
Jubilee & Jackalope adventuring together! Click here to visit Instagram & enter to win!
To enter, make sure to follow @spindleandsparrow and @thebrujapoeta, then comment on the post by tagging at least three friends who love magical realism/surrealism, whimsical creations, and books! Make sure to check out Avra's other beautiful creations at her Etsy shop Spindle and Sparrow! You can read more about Jubilee as well as pre-order from Blackstone Publishing & wherever books are sold.
About this beautiful collaboration—
My dear hermana, the wondrous & talented Avra Elliott @spindleandsparrow designed, created, & infused with magick this sweet Jackalope to accompany my heartwork second novel JUBILEE, which drops October 6th from @blackstonepublishing!
My kids & I have long been in love with Avra’s whimsical creations (I have a Jackalope on my bedside, along with a Frida Kahlo & a mercat, & both kids have elephants & ponies they adore)—& because she’s a wondrous writer, poet, magickal toymaker, & dear, dear friend, she offered to make a special Jackalope to give away with JUBILEE to one lucky follower!
The week of Oct. 6th, I’ll choose at random, so enter to win some magick sent to you from New Mexico where @spindleandsparrow & I write & create joy together!
About JUBILEE—
After surviving a trauma she cannot bring herself to name, twenty-year-old Bianca Vogelsang comes home carrying an eerily lifelike doll in her arms—a doll she calls Jubilee.
“[An] intense, artfully woven psychological drama…Bianca’s repeated meditations on bodies of water as a source of life (“Rivers take, yes, but rivers bring back”) and the echoes of lines from Cisneros add rich lyrical layers to the fast-paced plot. Givhan rewards readers with an intense, fiery story.”
—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
Jubilee comes out October 6th - in hardcover, ebook and audio!
''I never thought I'd see the Great Mexicali Novel. Jennifer Givhan teaches us new things about borders, including the shadowy borders of the mind. Intense.'' --Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels
Holding you in protective light,
Jenn