The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
Opal had offered her assurance and I had received it, and this felt to me like a mutual leap of faith: If one of us could be brave in facing whatever came next, then so would the other.
Dawnie Walton • The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
Dusk fell over the fairgrounds, an orange band clinging to the horizon like a layer of stone fruit sunk to the bottom of a casserole.
Dawnie Walton • The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change
Dawnie Walton • The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
no matter what I was saying, they stayed glazed and grinning.
Dawnie Walton • The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
Madame Josephine half-naked on that stage at Versailles.
Dawnie Walton • The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
was so mad, so resentful of anybody else’s expectations of what kind of artist I needed to be, that I kept on scribbling those terrible songs and subjecting my audience to them.
Dawnie Walton • The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
Toni Cade Bambara, Maya Angelou,
Dawnie Walton • The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
She was so dangerous, wild . . . sexy.