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Delicious foods is also the story of eddie, darlenes abandoned son, whose shattered childhood is defined by his heartbreaking but steely quest to find his mother at any costeven the loss of his hands. James hannaham has won the 2016 penfaulkner award for fiction for his second novel, delicious foods. James hannaham, author of delicious foods if drugs. Delicious foods details the horrors of debt slavery in america. In delicious foods, james hannaham has created a wholly new worlda hallucinatory place shot through with struggle and terrible deedsbut one never lacking light or hope. Delicious foods begins with one of the main protagonists, eddie, who had recently lost his hands, driving a white subaru towards houston, tx. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The paperback of the delicious foods by james hannaham at. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. It is almost impossible to choose the most memorable thing about james hannahams powerful and daring second novel, delicious foods a title suggestive of billie holidays strange fruit. A young black man named eddie, driving through the darkness of rural louisiana, terrycloth wrapped where his hands once lived. James hannahams new novel on the brian lehrer show. Through darlenes haunted struggle to reunite with eddie, through the efforts of both to triumph over those who would enslave them, and through the irreverent and mischievous voice of the. Scotty, who is the books charismatic narrator for most of the proceedings, is in fact the literal.

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Hannaham was awarded the 36th annual penfaulkner award for his second novel, delicious foods little, brown, 2015. Delicious foods by james hannaham darlene, a widow and mother devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband, turns to drugs to erase the trauma. In james hannahams novel delicious foods, addiction itself is a character it even narrates some of the chapters. In delicious foods, james hannaham tells the gripping story of. This page contains details about the fiction book delicious foods by james hannaham published in 2016. When readers first meet eddie, one of the principal characters in james hannahams much anticipated second novel, he is struggling to steer a.

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