The House of Broken Bricks
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Tess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in the city to the English countryside, where predatory birds hover over fields, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider, and no one looks like her. As Tess and Richard settle in, the dramatic arrival of their fraternal twins-one who presents as black and the other as white-recasts the family dynamic, stirring up complicated feelings and questions of belonging. Tess yearns for the comforting chaos of life as it once was, instead of Max and Sonny tracking dirt through the kitchen where cooking Caribbean food becomes her sole comfort. And Richard obsesses over getting his crops planted rather than deal with the conversation he cannot bear to have. In Fiona Williams's quartet of unforgettable alternating perspectives, secrets and vines clamber over the house's broken red bricks, and although its inhabitants seem to be withering, Sonny knows that something is As the seasons change and the cracks let in more light, the family might just be able to start to heal.
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Williams, F., Allen, B., Braithwaite, L., & Hayles, J. (2024). The House of Broken Bricks. Unabridged. Dreamscape Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Fiona, Williams et al.. 2024. The House of Broken Bricks. Dreamscape Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Fiona, Williams et al., The House of Broken Bricks. Dreamscape Media, 2024.
MLA Citation (style guide)Williams, Fiona,, et al. The House of Broken Bricks. Unabridged. Dreamscape Media, 2024.
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| title | The House of Broken Bricks |
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| duration | 8h 38m 0s |
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| dateLastUpdated | Sep 26, 2024 03:05:23 AM |
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| Last File Modification Time | Aug 02, 2025 10:30:31 PM |
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