![]() ![]() “Only my city is both apocryphal and real. ![]() “Detroit for me is like Faulkner’s mythical Mississippi town,” she says. Watson Fellow - Into The Go Slow was born of her experiences as an African American ex-pat in the most complicated and intriguing city in the world.ĭavis grew up on Detroit’s Northwest side, and continues to use the Motor City as a locale in her work. Set both in Davis’ hometown of Detroit and the Nigerian metropolis, Lagos - where Davis lived for a year as a Thomas J. The novel, which was praised by Chris Abani as “a beautiful allegory of love, family, expansion, hope and transformation”, has recently entered its second printing. Time Out New York recently named Davis one of “10 New York Authors to Read Right Now.” Her highly-anticipated second novel, Into The Go-Slow, was selected as a best book of 2014 by Salon, The San Francisco Chronicle, BookRiot, Bustle and The Root, among others. Davis is a novelist, essayist, teacher, filmmaker and curator. ![]()
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