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At twenty-two years old, Cece Cordell reaches the pinnacle of her career as a ballet dancer when she's promoted to principal at the New York City Ballet. She's instantly catapulted into celebrity, heralded for her "inspirational" role as the first Black ballerina in the famed company's history. Even...

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Main Author: Cuffy, Nicole (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : One World, [2023]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Ballet dancers > Fiction.
African American women > Fiction.
Brothers > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Belonging (Social psychology) > Fiction.
Young women > Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in women > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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Summary:At twenty-two years old, Cece Cordell reaches the pinnacle of her career as a ballet dancer when she's promoted to principal at the New York City Ballet. She's instantly catapulted into celebrity, heralded for her "inspirational" role as the first Black ballerina in the famed company's history. Even as she celebrates the achievement of a lifelong dream, Cece remains haunted by the feeling that she doesn't belong. As she waits for some feeling of rightness that doesn't arrive, she begins to unravel the loose threads of her past--an absent father, a pragmatic mother who dismisses Cece's ambitions, and a missing older brother who stoked her childhood love of ballet but disappeared to deal with his own demons. Soon after her promotion, Cece is faced with a choice that has the potential to derail her career and shatter the life she's cultivated for herself, sending her on a pilgrimage to both find her brother and reclaim the parts of herself lost in the grinding machinery of the traditional ballet world
Physical Description:277 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:9780593498156
Author Notes:Nicole Cuffy is a D.C.-based writer with a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from The New School. She is a lecturer at the University of Maryland and American University. Her work can be found in Mason's Road , The Master's Review Volume VI (curated by Roxane Gay), Chautauqua , and Blue Mesa Review , and her chapbook, Atlas of the Bod y, won the Chautauqua Janus Prize and was a finalist for the Black River Chapbook Competition. When she is not writing, she is reading, and when she is not reading, she is probably dancing.

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