Witness: Stories
(Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover for "Witness"
Your Rating: 0 stars
Star rating for
Author:
Brinkley, Jamel
Published:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
Format:
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Status:
Available from OverDrive

Description

A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Oprah Daily, Elle, The Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, Electric Literature, Library Journal, Commonweal Magazine
Winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award. A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the Kirkus Prize
Long-listed for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Story Prize
A Must-Read: The New York Times, NPR, New York, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Today Show, The Boston Globe, Shondaland, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Review of Books, Essence, Literary Hub, The Millions, The Root
"Exhilarating . . . Brinkley is a writer whose versatility knows no boundaries . . . A gift of the highest quality." —Mateo Askaripour, The New York Times Book Review
From National Book Award finalist Jamel Brinkley, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken and not taken.
What does it mean to really see the world around you—to bear witness? And what does it cost us, both to see and not to see?
In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters—from children to grandmothers to ghosts—live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect with, stand up for, care for, and remember one another, they often fall short, and the structures they build around these ambitions and failures shape their futures as well as the legacies and prospects of their communities and their city.
In its portraits of families and friendships lost and found, the paradox of intimacy, the long shadow of grief, and the meaning of home, Witness enacts its own testimony. Here is a world where fortunes can be made and stolen in just a few generations, where strangers might sometimes show kindness while those we trust—doctors, employers, siblings—too often turn away, where joy comes in snatches: flowers on a windowsill, dancing in the street, glimpsing your purpose, change on the horizon.
With prose as upendingly beautiful as it is artfully, seamlessly crafted, Jamel Brinkley offers nothing less than the full scope of life and death and change in the great, unending drama of the city.

Also in This Series

Formats

Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
Sample 
OverDrive Read
Sample 
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.

More Like This

Other Editions and Formats

Choose a Format
On Shelf
Broomfield Fiction
F Brink
Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection
Online OverDrive Collection
Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection
Online OverDrive Collection

More Copies In Prospector

Loading Prospector Copies...

Subjects

Subjects
Fiction
African American Fiction
Literature
Short Stories

More Details

Street Date:
08/01/2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780374607043
ASIN:
B0BBC8TYXC

Borrower Reviews

Librarian Reviews

Published Reviews

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Citations

APA Citation (style guide)

Jamel Brinkley. (2023). Witness: Stories. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Jamel Brinkley. 2023. Witness: Stories. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Jamel Brinkley. Witness: Stories. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.

Copy Details

LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection11
Broomfield Library00

Staff View

Grouped Work ID:
56a81fec-420e-057a-3a75-9ca3e142c21f
Go To Grouped Work

QR Code

API Extraction Dates

Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Aug 24, 2023 12:04:22
Date Updated:
Aug 24, 2023 12:04:22
Last Metadata Check:
Feb 02, 2025 04:52:22
Last Metadata Change:
Jan 26, 2025 04:45:24
Last Availability Check:
Feb 02, 2025 04:52:24
Last Availability Change:
Sep 03, 2024 08:04:13
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Feb 04, 2025 01:37:20

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{4B0F180C-4232-4640-BDC6-1CA3202FBDE1}IMG100.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2390-1/{4B0F180C-4232-4640-BDC6-1CA3202FBDE1}IMG200.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2390-1/{4B0F180C-4232-4640-BDC6-1CA3202FBDE1}IMG150.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2390-1/{4B0F180C-4232-4640-BDC6-1CA3202FBDE1}IMG400.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780374607043
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B0BBC8TYXC
      • name: Kindle Book
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780374607043
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9780374607036
mediaType
eBook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Jamel Brinkley
isOwnedByCollections
False
title
Witness
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=114&titleID=9191415
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Front Range Downloadable Library (CO)
          • id: 1100
sortTitle
Witness Stories
crossRefId
9191415
subtitle
Stories
id
4B0F180C-4232-4640-BDC6-1CA3202FBDE1
starRating
4

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
formats
      • fileName: Witness_9191415
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B0BBC8TYXC
      • name: Kindle Book
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • onSaleDate: 8/1/2023
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4b0f180c-4232-4640-bdc6-1ca3202fbde1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: Witness_9780374607043_9191415
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780374607043
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 8/1/2023
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4b0f180c-4232-4640-bdc6-1ca3202fbde1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
keywords
      • value: literary fiction
      • value: family life
      • value: African American Literature
      • value: story collections
      • value: NYC
      • value: Short Stories
      • value: Psychological
      • value: award winning
      • value: Urban
      • value: new york city
      • value: black authors
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Brinkley, Jamel
      • bioText: Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man, which won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the John Leonard Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, A Public Space, Ploughshares, and The Best American Short Stories. He was raised in the Bronx and Brooklyn and currently teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
      • name: Jamel Brinkley
publishDate
2023-08-01T00:00:00Z
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
Witness
fullDescription

A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Oprah Daily, Elle, The Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, Electric Literature, Library Journal, Commonweal Magazine
Winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award. A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the Kirkus Prize
Long-listed for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Story Prize
A Must-Read: The New York Times, NPR, New York, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Today Show, The Boston Globe, Shondaland, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Review of Books, Essence, Literary Hub, The Millions, The Root
"Exhilarating . . . Brinkley is a writer whose versatility knows no boundaries . . . A gift of the highest quality." —Mateo Askaripour, The New York Times Book Review
From National Book Award finalist Jamel Brinkley, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken and not taken.
What does it mean to really see the world around you—to bear witness? And what does it cost us, both to see and not to see?
In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters—from children to grandmothers to ghosts—live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect with, stand up for, care for, and remember one another, they often fall short, and the structures they build around these ambitions and failures shape their futures as well as the legacies and prospects of their communities and their city.
In its portraits of families and friendships lost and found, the paradox of intimacy, the long shadow of grief, and the meaning of home, Witness enacts its own testimony. Here is a world where fortunes can be made and stolen in just a few generations, where strangers might sometimes show kindness while those we trust—doctors, employers, siblings—too often turn away, where joy comes in snatches: flowers on a windowsill, dancing in the street, glimpsing your purpose, change on the horizon.
With prose as upendingly beautiful as it is artfully, seamlessly crafted, Jamel Brinkley offers nothing less than the full scope of life and death and change in the great, unending drama of the city.

popularity
1045
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BvwAAAA25/products/4b0f180c-4232-4640-bdc6-1ca3202fbde1/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
    • shareInLibby:
        • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=9z-MAEqDkIE
        • type: text/HTML
id
4b0f180c-4232-4640-bdc6-1ca3202fbde1
starRating
4.3
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{4B0F180C-4232-4640-BDC6-1CA3202FBDE1}IMG100.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2390-1/{4B0F180C-4232-4640-BDC6-1CA3202FBDE1}IMG200.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2390-1/{4B0F180C-4232-4640-BDC6-1CA3202FBDE1}IMG150.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2390-1/{4B0F180C-4232-4640-BDC6-1CA3202FBDE1}IMG400.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
subjects
      • value: Fiction
      • value: African American Fiction
      • value: Literature
      • value: Short Stories
publishDateText
08/01/2023
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9780374607036
mediaType
eBook
shortDescription

A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Oprah Daily, Elle, The Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, Electric Literature, Library Journal, Commonweal Magazine
Winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award. A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the Kirkus Prize
Long-listed for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Story Prize
A Must-Read: The New York Times, NPR, New York, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Today Show, The Boston Globe, Shondaland, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Review of Books, Essence, Literary Hub, The Millions, The Root
"Exhilarating . . . Brinkley is a writer whose versatility knows no boundaries . . . A...

sortTitle
Witness Stories
crossRefId
9191415
classifications
    subtitle
    Stories
    publisher
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    bisacCodes
        • code: FIC029000
        • description: Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
        • code: FIC049000
        • description: Fiction / African American & Black / General
        • code: FIC084040
        • description: Fiction / World Literature / American / 21st Century