The Fugitivities

By: Jesse McCarthy

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Hardcover | 10 June 2021

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288 Pages

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Set in the 1990s and early aughts, a young film enthusiast-turned-teacher and a retired basketball player-turned-expat, as they seek out the significance of race, nation, and community across a globalizing world.

The Fugitivities tells the powerful and singular story of two African-American acquaintances finding their individuality among a society where community means everything. Jonas, an American expat living in France returns to New York to discover it doesn't fit right.

Not wanting to return to Paris, Jonas sets off for Brazil to find the greater meaning of selfhood. There is also, Archibald, a retired American basketball player who uproots his life in Harlem for Paris. What they discover are the limits of individuality, the responsibility to community, and a sense of maturity neither of them could ever anticipate.

About the Author

Jesse McCarthy has written for several publications including The New York Times, n+1, and the New Republic. He is a contributing editor at The Point and is an associate professor of English, African American, and African History at Harvard.

Industry Reviews

"A gorgeous, virtuosic novel! In exquisite, often ecstatic, prose, McCarthy gives us a portrait of the artist as a young black man--or rather, as a set of young black men, brothers and friends and rivals. This is blackness as it collides with class and love. Blackness in its uneasy relationship to Europe and the Americas. Blackness in all of its inner intricacy, tension, and beauty. Blackness shattered from the inside, each facet spinning, in McCarthy's own words, in "a hypnotic dance like shards in a kaleidoscope." --Namwali Serpell, author of The Old Drift

"The debut novel from McCarthy, Harvard professor and author of essays destined to be taught in classrooms for years to come (among them "Notes on Trap"), The Fugitivities takes place in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Brazil, with Parisian interludes. The novel explores the collision of a teacher in crisis with a basketball coach yearning for a lost love, carrying the former on a journey that will change everything." --Lydia Kiesling, The Millions Most Anticipated Books 2019

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