title: The Sacrifice: A Novel
author:  Joyce Carol Oates 
description: Joyce Carol Oates [] is simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going, as far as Im concerned. (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl)<br /><br />Oates fully intends to make readers squirm. But for all its headline brashness, visceral magnification, and societal melodrama, <i>The Sacrifice</i> is laced with striking psychological subtleties, painful ironies, and flashes of tenderness and wit. A sure-fire catalyst for meaningful discussion. (Booklist <strong>(starred review)</strong>)<br /><br />A fictional account of the infamous Tawana Brawley case [Oates] uses fiction as an opportunity to interrogate the circumstances that made Brawleys story a sensation and gave it meaning. (Kirkus Reviews)<br /><br />[A] tale of race, community, and pride complex and multifaceted. (Publishers Weekly)<br /><br />In this provocative novel, Oates barges her way into territory where not many white writers have dared to tread - and produced a raw and earnest mix of fiery drama and the bone-cold truths of race as we live it today. (NPR / All Things Considered)<br /><br />If you enjoy historical fiction, theres a wide range of it coming up. In January, the tireless Joyce Carol Oates publishes <i>The Sacrifice</i>, a tense novel based on the notorious Tawana Brawley rape case in 1987. (Tampa Bay Times)<br /><br />Prize-winning author Joyce Carol Oates recreates the notorious Tawana Brawley case - with an Al Sharpton-like character fanning the flames of fraud - in her explosive new novel The Sacrifice. (New York Post)<br /><br />The tireless Joyce Carol Oates publishes <i>The Sacrifice</i>, a tense novel based on the notorious Tawana Brawley rape case in 1987. (Lexington Herald Leader)<br /><br />Based largely on the infamous Tawana Brawley hoax of the late-1980s, Joyce Carol Oates latest novel, <i>The Sacrifice</i> is a savage satire on race relations and the culture of sensationalism...<i>The Sacrifice</i> ranks among Joyce Carol Oatess best novels. (New York Post)<br /><br />Without a doubt this book is timely...If there was ever a moment that called for insight into the scourge of racist policing, this is it....Oates has a sophisticated grasp of racial complexities (Boston Globe)
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  Sacrifice
  
  
  Ryze #3.5
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © N. Isabelle Blanco
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
  either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is
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  Publication Date: November 12th 2019
  
  
  Genre: FICTION/Romance/Paranormal
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 N. Isabelle Blanco
  
  
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  Sacrifice
  
  
  
  
  
  (A Ryze Novel)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  N. Isabelle Blanco
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “We are all misfits living in a world on fire.”
  
  
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