Sandra Yansen must leave behind the close ties of family and village when she leaves to take a job as a reporter in Georgetown, Guyana. She finds the capital riven by racial conflict and the growing subversion of political freedom. Exploring the tensions between personal and political integrity, this novel reflects on the position of women in Guyanese society through Sandra’s passage into the male world of the newspaper office, her mother’s frustrations, and the enduring matriarchy of Nurse, Miss K, Noor, and Zena, who are Sandra’s other mothers. Ambitious and focused, this narrative juggles tradition and change as Sandra struggles in her search for independence.

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Literature & Fiction

Lowe Shinebourne, Jan

Literary

Peepal Tree Press Ltd.

<p>For Joan Wong, growing up in a Chinese family in the political turmoil of 1960s Guyana, family history is never straightforward. There are the examples of her grandmothers - Clarice Chung, iron-willed matriarch who has ensured the family's survival through unremitting toil, with her pride in maintaining racial and cultural identity, and Susan Leo, whose failures have shamed the family, who found comfort from harsh poverty in relationships with two Indian men and adopting an Indian life-style. Later, when Joan Wong makes her own pilgrimage to ancestral China at the turn of the twenty-first century, there are surprises in store.</p>

The Last Ship

Contemporary

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The Last Ship