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None But the Righteous

A Novel

Chantal James

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English
Counterpoint
29 March 2022
Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, None But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction

In seventeenth-century Peru, St. Martin de Porres was torn from his body after death. His bones were pillaged as relics, and his spirit was said to inhabit those bones. Four centuries later, amid the havoc of Hurricane Katrina, nineteen-year-old Ham escapes New Orleans with his only valued possession- a pendant handed down from his foster mother, Miss Pearl. There's something about the pendant that has always gripped him, and the curiosity of it has grown into a kind of comfort.

When Ham finally embarks on a fraught journey back home, he seeks the answer to a question he cannot face- Is Miss Pearl still alive? Ham travels from Atlanta to rural Alabama, and from one young woman to another, as he evades the devastation that awaits him in New Orleans. Catching sight of a freedom he's never known, he must reclaim his body and mind from the spirit who watches over him, guides him, and seizes possession of him.
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Imprint:   Counterpoint
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 223mm,  Width: 149mm, 
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9781640094598
ISBN 10:   1640094598
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

CHANTAL JAMES lives in Washington, D.C., and has been published across genres-as a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and book reviewer-in such venues as Catapult, Paste, Harvard's Transition, The Bitter Southerner, and more. James's honors include a Fulbright Fellowship in creative writing to Morocco and a finalist position for the Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize from the North Carolina Literary Review in 2019.

Reviews for None But the Righteous: A Novel

None but the Righteous is an homage to postcolonial and Southern literature yet a singularly incandescent marvel. -Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, author of The Revisioners and A Kind of Freedom At once spiritual and earthly, balancing with deft what is metaphysical and what is flesh, James' None But the Righteous ensnares, haunts, and fulfills that ancient, human need for narrative in carefully chosen language. You'll fall right into this world. -Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat In the tradition of Toni Morrison's Beloved, None But the Righteous is a gripping ghost story, a fevered dream of a young man's quest for freedom and belonging in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Chantal James has written a gorgeous page-turner. -Devi S. Laskar, author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues and winner of the Crook's Corner Book Prize Masterfully lyrical and captivatingly atmospheric, None But the Righteous is a sweeping portrait of intersecting lives once buffeted by the winds of an apocalyptic hurricane, wandering toward the pull of belonging while simultaneously repulsed by it. Ham's journey to reclaim both his city and his own body is a story of epic proportions told by a fiercely talented writer. Chantal James is one to watch. -Zeyn Joukhadar, author of The Thirty Names of Night and The Map of Salt and Stars


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