Longlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A "rich, ambitious debut novel" ( T he New York Times Book Review ) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of...
Jamaicans
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Author:Card, MaisySummary: - Author:Irving, DionneSummary:
The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women--immigrants or the descendants of immigrants--who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism. Set in the United States, Jamaica, and Europe, these international...
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Author:Levy, AndreaSummary: - Author:Dennis-Benn, NicoleSummary:
When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised. More than anything, Patsy wishes to be reunited with her oldest...
- Author:Boisvert, Alain PierreSummary:
« — Peux-tu me décrire, mon hibou, ce que tu avais dessiné dans ta classe? poursuit Ricky, encore un peu secoué par le tintouin amplifié de notre crocodile. — Une grande plage avec des jeux et la mer et le soleil et des oiseaux et des...
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Author:Jolly, B. DenhamSummary:Winner of the 2017 Toronto Book Award. A remarkable memoir about achieving prosperity in the face of relentless prejudice In the Black traces B. Denham Jolly's personal and professional struggle for a place in a country where...
- Author:Murray, SheilaSummary:
Cyril Rowntree migrates to Toronto from Jamaica in 2012. Managing a precarious balance of work and university he begins to navigate his way through the implications of being racialized in his challenging new land. A chance encounter...
