Dixon, Descending: A Novel
Written by Karen Outen
Reported by JD Jackson
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
A powerful and heartbreaking debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibility to each other.
Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and since that pain decades ago, he hasn't let a goal consume him. But when his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they try to be the first black American men to summit Everest, Dixon can't refuse. The brothers are determined to prove something, to themselves and to each other.
Dixon interrupts his orderly life as a school psychologist, leaving behind disapproving friends and family and a particularly fragile student, Marcus. Once on the mountain, they face extreme weather conditions, a lack of oxygen and precarious terrain. But even though they have prepared for this, Mount Everest is still fickle. And in one devastating moment, Dixon's world is turned upside down.
Dixon returns home and attempts to return to his job, but things have changed: for him and for the students he left behind when he chose Mt. Everest. In the end, Dixon must face the truth about what happened on the mountain and decide who can and cannot be saved. DIXON, DESCENDING offers us a captivating and moving portrait of how we are transformed by our decisions and what it takes to point us, once again, toward hope.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Karen Outen's fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, The North American Review, Essence, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award and has been a member of the University of Michigan Humanities Institute and the Pew Fellowships in the Arts. She received an MFA from the University of Michigan. She lives in Maryland.
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
Purchase on Google Play Books https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAECij27P3M
French language
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio
Published on: February 6, 2024
ISBN: 9780593827604
Duration: 10h 41m
Genres: Fiction / African American and black / General, Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Nature and environment
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