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Author: Sara Hosey
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 13.70cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 21.30cm
Weight: 0.399kg
ISBN: 9781799956396
ISBN 10: 1799956393
Publication Date: 11 May 2021
Recommended Age: From 13 to 17 years
Audience:
Young adult
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Not yet available
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Reviews
Written in 90s straight-up Queens vernacular, Hosey's gritty and unflinching coming-of-age story offers hope without skimping on real-life issues. One of the most impressive things about Hosey's prose is her subtlety, allowing the reader to depict the hardships many people face by her use of silence. Iphigenia Murphy is a heart-wrenching, gritty, critical read. -- Mia Siegert, author of Jerkbait and the forthcoming Somebody Told Me What a privilege to follow Iffy on her journey. My heart is full. -- M-E Girard, author of Girl Mans Up Readers will be swept away by this angsty survival tale of a teen willing to take her future into her own hands...Hosey touches on issues such as unexpected friendship, trust, abortion, rape, courage, hope, incarcerated parents, drugs, physical abuse, and violence, though the book never becomes overly graphic. Each of these issues is intricately woven throughout the novel and leads Iphigenia to answer questions of identity and self. Recommend to fans of Patricia McCormick's Sold or Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak. -- School Library Journal An exploration of how, and why, girls can vanish in plain sight...High stakes and [a] heart-wrenching conclusion. -- Kirkus Reviews Iphigenia Murphy is brilliant; a ferocious, harrowing, amazing portrait of a young girl's resilience; her quest to find her mother, and to right the wrongs of a troubled family history. I tore through this novel with my heart racing, and couldn't put it down. Sara Hosey has given us a true story of solidarity and girl power, full of pain and love and rage hope. I haven't cried at the ending of a novel since A Little Life, but found myself sobbing on the last page of this beautiful book. Iphigenia Murphy is sure to be an instant classic, let's hope Hosey has more in store for us. -- Norah Olsen, award-winning author of Twisted Fate and Before Now Iphigenia Murphy by Sara Hosey is bound to be one of 2020's best contemporary YA books...We can tell this story is going to be chock full of heart. -- Hypable
Author Information
Sara Hosey holds a PhD in American literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is an associate professor of English and women and gender studies at Nassau Community College. Her book, Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Media Depictions of Wives and Mothers (McFarland, 2019), looks at representations of the domestic in popular culture. Sara grew up in Queens and now lives in Sea Cliff, New York, with her partner and their children. She is working on a second novel.
