Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Saidiya Hartman
History / Non-Fiction
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
by Saidiya Hartman
—· 403 p
National Book Critics Circle AwardPEN/John Kenneth Galbraith AwardJudy Grahn Awardreflectivephilosophicalhauntingdark
Overview
About
Winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Winner of the 2020 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography Named one of the Best Books of the 21st Century by the New York Times Book Review "Exhilarating…A rich resurrection of a forgotten history." —Parul Sehgal, New York Times Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Exper…
Pages
403
W. W. Norton & Company
Linguistic complexity
5/5
Very Dense
Thematic complexity
5/5
Profound
Rating
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Reader feel
Prose10
Historical Reconstruction10
Intellectual Resonance10
Emotional depth9
Narration9
Worldbuilding7
Pacing6
Plot twists1
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