{"id":60154,"date":"2020-09-12T21:22:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T21:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60154"},"modified":"2020-09-12T21:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T21:22:40","slug":"the-in-betweens-a-lyrical-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60154","title":{"rendered":"The In-Betweens: A Lyrical Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/everytimepress.com\/everytime-press-catalogue\/travel-memoir\/the-in-betweens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>The In-Betweens: A Lyrical Narrative<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/everytimepress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everytime Press<\/a><br \/>\n2018-12-10<br \/>\n202 pages<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davonloeb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Davon Loeb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/everytimepress.com\/everytime-press-catalogue\/travel-memoir\/the-in-betweens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/everytimepress.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/09\/in-betweens-website-cover.jpg?w=396&amp;h=600\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beginning with the challenges of how his White father and Black mother met, with their desire \u201cto run away and start fresh and new\u201d\u2014resulting in a sometimes \u201cpretend family\u201d\u2014to a near-archetypal description of his grandfather having just cut the grass as the author watches with a swollen lip and a black eye, to incessant moments in which different expressions of masculinity get inculcated, in <em>The In-Betweens: A Lyrical Narrative<\/em> Davon Loeb frequently captures the disturbing poesy of life growing up. With painstaking detail, Loeb revisits family tales of slavery, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alabama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alabama<\/a>, domestic labor, church, cornrows, and the significance of studying one\u2019s history, specters that continue to haunt him. This work is in the vein of James McBride\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Color of Water<\/em><\/a>, Justin Torres\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=23362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>We the Animals<\/em><\/a>, and Jamaica Kincaid\u2019s <em>Annie John<\/em>, that is, work in which we learn about hardship from the perspective of the child. Confession, manifesto, bildungsroman, and prayer, <em>The In-Betweens<\/em> is a meditation on bruise and healing. Loeb\u2019s struggles become snapshots of how transformation occurs even where shards have been piled, where one waits \u201cfor something to happen, like flashes of red and blue sirens pulsing.\u201d A truly extraordinary new voice!<\/p>\n<p>~ Roy G. Guzm\u00e1n, author of <em>Restored Mural for Orlando<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The In-Betweens: A Lyrical Narrative Everytime Press 2018-12-10 202 pages Davon Loeb Beginning with the challenges of how his White father and Black mother met, with their desire \u201cto run away and start fresh and new\u201d\u2014resulting in a sometimes \u201cpretend family\u201d\u2014to a near-archetypal description of his grandfather having just cut the grass as the author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17],"tags":[31136,31135],"class_list":["post-60154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-davon-loeb","tag-everytime-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60156,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60154\/revisions\/60156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}