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May 2, 2023 · Tembe Denton-Hurst. Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young Black writer whose world is turned upside down when she loses her coveted job in media and pens a searing manifesto about racism in the industry. Mickey Hayward dreams of writing stories that matter.
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- Tembe Denton-Hurst
May 2, 2023 · “Homebodies” juggles the many things that make a life, from work to romance to family to one’s position in the world. It calls to mind the archetypal hero’s journey: the ancient narrative ...
- Sarah Thankam Mathews
Denton-Hurst has written a warm, brilliant novel that’s stunning and poignant; Homebodies is wonderfully witty and full of empathy and entirely original.”. “ Homebodies is a beautiful story on becoming. Denton-Hurst’s prose is perfect with an innate attention to detail and astonishing ability to capture the shapes and colors of emotions ...
May 11, 2023 · Homebodies, the debut novel from Tembe Denton-Hurst, follows Mickey, a 20-something Black lesbian who is laid off from her flashy media job. When she spirals afterward, Mickey begins to search for who she is, what she truly cares about, and how she can be heard. Homebodies is also a novel about Black women in corporate America performing our ...
- Tembe Denton-Hurst
May 2, 2023 · An insightful, propulsive, and deeply sexy debut novel about a young Black writer whose world is turned upside down when she loses her coveted job in media and pens a searing manifesto about racism in the industry. Mickey Hayward dreams of writing stories that matter, but, for now, her days are filled with listicles about lip gloss and click ...
Apr 25, 2023 · Read an Excerpt of. Homebodies. by Tembe Denton-Hurst. In the opening pages from Denton-Hurst’s debut novel, a young Black writer learns, over cocktails and ceviche, that her coveted media job ...
May 2, 2023 · What The Reviewers Say. Sharp, charming and passionate ... It is this eye for the rhythms and textures of life...that makes this novel vivid and inviting ... The novel opens on a well-calibrated set piece of suspense and disquiet ... Homebodies contemporizes the hero’s journey, giving us a novel of love, work and becoming for the digital age.
