# Another Kind of Madness - Hardcover

by **Ed Pavlic** (Author)

**"A full-bodied literary achievement bustling with sweat, regret, and sound." --KIESE LAYMON**

Ndiya Grayson returns to her childhood home of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can't protect her from half-repressed memories of childhood trauma. One evening, vulnerable and emotionally disarrayed, she goes out and meets her equal and opposite:

Shame Luther, a no-nonsense construction worker by day and a self-taught piano player by night. The love story that ensues propels them on an unforgettable journey from Chicago's South Side to the coast of Kenya as they navigate the turbulence of long-buried pasts and an uncertain future.

A stirring novel tuned to the clash between soul music's vision of our essential responsibility to each other and a world that breaks us down and tears us apart, _Another Kind of Madness_ is an indelible tale of human connection.

### Author Biography

**Ed Pavlic** is the author of eight collections of poems, including _Visiting Hours at the Coloring Line_ and _Let's Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno_, both of which were winners of the National Poetry Series. He has published essays, poems, fiction, and dramatic pieces with dozens of outlets, including the _New York Times_, _Boston Review_, _Harvard Review_, _Ploughshares_, and _Callaloo_. His critical work includes _'Who Can Afford to Improvise?' James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners_ and _Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African American Literary Culture_. A recipient of the Author of the Year Award from the Georgia Writers Association and a fellowship from the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, Pavlic is Distinguished Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia.

**Number of Pages:** 504

**Dimensions:** 1.6 x 8.6 x 5.9 IN

**Publication Date:** March 12, 2019

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