{"id":1066,"date":"2020-08-14T14:12:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T14:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandihoman.com\/staging\/1921\/?page_id=1066"},"modified":"2023-10-15T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T12:59:59","slug":"burn-fortune","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brandihoman.com\/staging\/1921\/burn-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"483\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brandihoman.com\/staging\/1921\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BF-CBA_From-Leza_SMALL.jpeg?resize=300%2C483&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brandihoman.com\/staging\/1921\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BF-CBA_From-Leza_SMALL.jpeg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brandihoman.com\/staging\/1921\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/BF-CBA_From-Leza_SMALL.jpeg?resize=186%2C300&amp;ssl=1 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Burn Fortune<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradohumanities.org\/programs\/colorado-book-awards\/\"><strong>*Winner*, 2020 Colorado Book Award in Literary Fiction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westword.com\/best-of\/2020\/arts-and-entertainment\/best-new-colorado-novel-11672765\"><strong>Best New Colorado Novel, Denver <em>Westword<\/em> 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clashbooks.com\/new-products-2\/brandi-homan-burn-fortune\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BUY ONLINE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">16-year-old June is a corn-detasseling flag twirler who lives in a small conservative town in the early 90s Midwest. Her family is dysfunctional but her boyfriend\u2014known only as \u201cMy Boyfriend\u201d\u2014has a family who is abusive. Looking for alternatives to the lives of the women who surround her, June&nbsp;becomes obsessed with the actress Jean Seberg (best known for Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Breathless<\/em>) as well as Joan of Arc.&nbsp;After a trauma, June withdraws and begins to live through Seberg\u2019s films. Offered these lives as alternatives to her own, June is left to wonder: Can anyone truly transcend their circumstances, or does having a dream mean death?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA scorching anthem of what it means to be a young girl in a small town\u2014the dreams that save us and the realities that pull us under. Alive with longing and the desire to break free.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2014MONA AWAD, AUTHOR OF&nbsp;<em>BUNNY<\/em>&nbsp;AND <em>ROUGE<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m in awe of how Brandi Homan\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Burn Fortune<\/em>&nbsp;embodies the Midwest\u2019s unfurled earth and stretched skies. There\u2019s a recurring image of detasseling corn, which is what the book does: everything connected by silky strands unraveling until we get to the core, a new image of grit and possibility. And Homan gracefully gives us the space to participate in the making of that new image. Thank you for the grit, the hope.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2014STEVEN DUNN, AUTHOR OF&nbsp;<em>POTTED MEAT&nbsp;<\/em>AND&nbsp;<em>WATER &amp; POWER<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">&#8220;It\u2019s the 1990s, and June is making her way through high school in Marshalltown, Iowa. Life moves at a laconic pace, spiked with the adrenaline of teenage discovery. But in Brandi Homan\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Burn Fortune<\/em>, what June discovers about the interminable territory between childhood and adulthood will immolate her. It\u2019s a haunting narrative about a girl\u2019s passage through the invisible gauntlet of sexual violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forewordreviews.com\/reviews\/burn-fortune\/\">\u2014Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers, <em>Foreword Reviews<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">&#8220;What Homan gives readers is a rather clear monologue of an early nineties midwestern teen girl in a forgettable town trying to find room to breathe and be something more. It is a very common desire, the heart of coming of age novels. What makes Homan\u2019s story compelling is her ability to capture the banality of such a time and place\u2014historically as well as developmentally\u2014blending it seamlessly with an internal life of grim tragedy, earnestness, naivety, and bitingly smart observation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manhattanbookreview.com\/product\/burn-fortune\/\">\u2014Daniel Casey, <em>Manhattan Book Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">&#8220;I was reading <em>Burn Fortune<\/em>\u2014Brandi Homan\u2019s novel about a Midwestern teen\u2019s identification with Jean Seberg\u2019s portrayal of Joan of Arc\u2014during the week that a catastrophic blaze at Notre-Dame de Paris caused the cathedral\u2019s iconic spire to collapse. The Maid of Orl\u00e9ans was burned to death some hundred kilometers away in Rouen, but both of these textual and architectural fires activated complex emotions around history, power structures, privilege, and grief. <em>Burn Fortune <\/em>is a compelling and necessary examination of these concepts, a meditation on the human costs of heteropatriarchy, and a vital argument about the political implications of narrative itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u2014Zack Anderson, <em>American Microreviews &amp; Interviews<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Winner*, 2020 Colorado Book Award in Literary Fiction Best New Colorado Novel, Denver Westword 2020 BUY ONLINE 16-year-old June is a corn-detasseling flag twirler who lives in a small conservative town in the early 90s Midwest. Her family is dysfunctional but her boyfriend\u2014known only as \u201cMy Boyfriend\u201d\u2014has a family who is abusive. 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