Blue Hour

What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma and an unravelling America? What it's always been a love song.

Our narrator is a gifted photographer, an uncertain wife, an infertile mother, a biracial woman in an America that's coming undone. As she grapples with a lifetime of ambivalence about motherhood, yet another act of police brutality makes headlines, and this time the victim is Noah, a boy in her photography class.

Unmoored by the grief of a recent, devastating miscarriage and Noah's fight for his life, she worries she can no longer chase the hope of having a child, no longer wants to bring a Black body into the world. Yet her husband Asher contributing white Jewish genes alongside her Black-Japanese ones to any potential child - is just as desperate to keep trying.

Throwing herself into a new documentary on motherhood and making secret visits to Noah in the hospital, this is when she learns she is, impossibly, pregnant. As life shifts once more, she must decide what she dares hope for the shape of her future to be.

A portrait of determined creativity and the attempt to live authentically in a changing world. It's full of zest and keen observation, with a likeable, intimate tone that cuts through its potentially dark subject matter

-- Financial Times
Full of musings, debate, anger, distress and yet, ultimately, hope, Blue Hour is incredibly powerful -- Zibby Owens Good Morning America
Gasp-worthy . . . How did Harrison achieve this spectacular feat of emotional withholding while also making readers feel so much -- J. Howard Rosier Vulture
It's an urgent, heartbreaking, and profound meditation on motherhood, art-making, uncertainty, the ongoing violence of American racism and police brutality, and the courage it takes to choose the future -- Laura Sackton BuzzFeed
In lyrical language, Harrison skillfully explores the complex tensions that gnaw at the expectant mother [...] and offers an intimate view of the couple's pain. This signals the arrival of a brave new writer Publishers Weekly

TIFFANY CLARKE HARRISON writes about your feelings. The ones that feel good, the ones that don't, and definitely the ones you don't want anyone to know. Writing novels has always been the goal, and Blue Hour is her debut. She graduated from Salisbury University with a BA in English, Creative Writing Concentration, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Queens University of Charlotte. Tiffany lives with her husband and two children in North Carolina.

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