Crick crack, monkey

Hodge, Merle

Literature & Fiction

Deutsch

Twelve-year-old Laetita Johnson is the first member of her family to attend secondary school, but her new life requires that she leave her old life in the village behind to live with her father in the city.

For the Life of Laetitia

Teen & Young Adult

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Twelve-year-old Lacey is thrilled to be the first in her family to be admitted to secondary school, even though it means leaving her small Caribbean village and moving into town.

For the Life of Laetitia (Aerial Fiction)

Children's Books

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

A revealing novel of childhood about Tee who is being made socially acceptable by her aunt so that she can cope with the caste system of Trinidad.

Crick Crack, Monkey (Caribbean Writers Series)

Geography & Cultures

Heinemann

About the Author\nMerle Hodge is a Trinidadian novelist and literary critic. Her 1970 novel Crick Crack, Monkey is a true classic of West Indian literature, and Hodge is acknowledged as the first black Caribbean woman to have published a major work of fiction.\nThis is the story of one woman's life; that of Gwyneth Cuffie, a seemingly ordinary woman: teacher, lover of children and music, and pillar of her community. Beautifully written and deeply compassionate, the novel follows Gwynneth's life as she charts her own path through the turbulent times of her island and struggle against colonialism.

One Day, One Day, Congotay

Literary

Peepal Tree Press Ltd.

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