# Boundaries - Hardcover

by **Elizabeth Nunez** (Author)

\--FINALIST for the 2012 NAACP Image Award in Literature

"A quiet, sensitive portrait . . . This work covers a lot of ground, from mother-daughter and male-female relationships to the tensions between immigrants and the American born." --_Library Journal_  
  
"Many moments of elegant, overarching insight bind the personal to the collective past." --_New York Times Book Review_

In an age of reality TV, a husband and wife cling to Victorian notions of privacy, though doing so threatens the life of the wife. Their daughter, Anna, yearns for her mother's unguarded affection, and eventually learns there is value in restraint. But Anna, a Caribbean American immigrant, finds that lesson harder to accept when, eager to assimilate in her new country, she discovers that a gap yawns between her and American-born citizens.  
  
The head of a specialized imprint at a major publishing house, Anna is soon challenged for her position by an ambitious upstart who accuses her of not really understanding American culture, particularly African American culture. Her job at stake, Anna turns for advice to her boyfriend Paul, a Caribbean American himself, who attempts to convince her that immigrants must accept limitations on their freedom in America.  
  
Told in spare and transcendent prose, _Boundaries_ is a riveting immigrant story, a fascinating look into the world of contemporary book publishing, a beautiful extension of the exploration of family dynamics that began in Nunez's previous novel Anna In-Between, and a heart-warming love story.

### Author Biography

**Elizabeth Nunez** is the award-winning author of a memoir and nine novels, four of them selected as _New York Times_ Editors' Choice. Her two most recent books are _Not for Everyday Use_, a memoir, which won the 2015 prestigious Hurston Wright Legacy Award for nonfiction, and the novel _Even in Paradise_, a contemporary version of Shakespeare's _King Lear_. Her other novels are: _Boundaries_ (nominated for the 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Fiction); _Anna In-Between_ (PEN Oakland Award for Literary Excellence and long-listed for an IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award); _Prospero's Daughter_ (2010 Trinidad and Tobago One Book, One Community selection, and the 2006 Florida Center for the Literary Arts One Book, One Community); _Bruised Hibiscus_ (American Book Award); _Beyond the Limbo Silence_ (Independent Publishers Book Award); _Grace_; _Discretion_; and _When Rocks Dance_. Nunez received her PhD from New York University and is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, where she teaches courses on Caribbean Women Writers and Creative Writing.

**Number of Pages:** 275

**Dimensions:** 0.94 x 8.66 x 5.54 IN

**Publication Date:** September 27, 2011

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