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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Yellowcake: A Novelby Ann Cummins
Review-a-Day (What is Review-a-Day?)"[A] smart, deftly written Southwestern novel....Cummins dodges an amazing number of pitfalls in her first novel. Yellowcake manages to avoid being preachy, depressing, melodramatic, or sanctimonious about either the environment or its native American characters. It deserves a half-life at least as long as its eponymous element." Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor (read the entire CSM review) Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:For her acclaimed collection of stories, Red Ant House, Joyce Carol Oates hailed Ann Cummins as a "master storyteller." The San Francisco Chronicle called her "startlingly original." Now, in her debut novel, Cummins stakes claim to rich new literary territory with a story of straddling cultures and cheating fate in the American Southwest. Yellowcake introduces us to two unforgettable families — one Navajo, one Anglo — some thirty years after the closing of the uranium mill near where they once made their collective home. When little Becky Atcitty shows up on the Mahoneys' doorstep all grown up, the past comes crashing in on Ryland and his lively brood. Becky, the daughter of one of the Navajo mill workers Ryland had supervised, is now involved in a group seeking damages for those harmed by the radioactive dust that contaminated their world. But Ryland wants no part of dredging up their past — or acknowledging his future. When his wife joins the cause, the messy, modern lives of this eclectic cast of characters collide once again, testing their mettle, stretching their faith, and reconnecting past and present in unexpected new ways.
Finely crafted, deeply felt, and bursting with heartache and hilarity, Yellowcake is a moving story of how everyday people sort their way through life, with all its hidden hazards. Review:"The plot of Ann Cummins' first novel, 'Yellowcake,' seems to suggest that we're in for a pretty shrill experience: Native Americans dying from chemical exposure at a shuttered uranium mine. Regardless of your politics, that looks like a beam of white guilt that will irradiate all subtlety. Discovering that Cummins delivers something far more nuanced is just one of many surprises in this rich and touching... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review)
Review:"[A] complex, unusually mature debut novel...interweaving the personal and political with quiet authority." Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
Review:"Cummins brilliantly conflates the insidious damage wrought by radiation sickness with the maladies of the soul caused by prejudice, poverty, nature's abuse, and love's betrayal." Booklist (Starred Review)
Review:"A tightly drawn and absorbing novel of the modern American Southwest." Library Journal
Review:"Already much admired for her superb short stories, Ann Cummins excels once more with a first novel that places her among the most serious and original writers of her generation." Sigrid Nunez, author of The Last of Her Kind and A Feather on the Breath of God
Review:"Ann Cummins has one of the most original and addictive voices around. In Yellowcake she uses it to tell a story that's filled with suspense, humanity, and a deep concern for what we make of the world we live in. This novel achieves a rare combination: it's both important and beautiful." Vendela Vida, author of Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
Review:"A memorable journey behind the buried news article or fleeting sound bite. Cummins's characters inhabit this world with dignity, humor, and complexity, and her treatment of them does what great literature always does better than the evening news: it includes its readers in humanity's profound engagement with righting wrongs. There's no one I wouldn't recommend this book to." Antonya Nelson, author of Some Fun and Female Trouble
Review:"Glorious...an unflinchingly honest look at the struggles faced by so-called ordinary Americans. But there is nothing at all ordinary about the wonderful, fully fleshed characters that populate this book. Cummins knows the souls of her people — an incredibly wide range of them — and she knows her place, a Southwest that is rendered in all its unromantic but somehow blessed beauty." Peter Orner, author of The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Esther Stories
Review:"Yellowcake is about those solid citizens — Navajo and white — whose work helped construct America's postwar prosperity and power, and whose repayment was exploitation and neglect. Ann Cummins is wonderful on the way individuals, just like corporations, seek to erase history; she's wonderful on the way our compassion works in counterpoint to our heedlessness." Jim Shepard, author of Project X and Love and Hydrogen
Review:"A gorgeous novel about people who are as tender and ornery and passionate and mixed-up and real as the people we know in real life. I loved them, and I love this book." Ann Packer, author of The Dive from Clausen's Pier
Synopsis:For her acclaimed collection of stories, "Red Ant House," Joyce Carol Oates hailed Ann Cummins as "a master storyteller." Now, in her debut novel, Cummins stakes claim to rich new literary territory with a story of straddling cultures and cheating fate in the American Southwest. About the AuthorA graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona writing programs, Ann Cummins is the author of Red Ant House, a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and Best Book of the Year. She has had her stories published in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, Quarterly West, and the Sonora Review, among other publications, as well as The Best American Short Stories 2002. The recipient of a Lannan fellowship, she divides her time between Oakland, California, where she lives with her husband, and Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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