A beautifully written and paced story, sure to capture the imagination of both teenagers and adult readers. Set in Toronto, two girls, Margaret -- a second generation West Indian immigrant -- and Sulma -- fresh up from a joyous life with her grandmother in Tobago to a tense and unhappy relationship with her mother and stepfather -- become friends and comrades in various adventures.

Harriet's Daughter (Caribbean Writers Series)

Literature & Fiction

Philip, Marlene NourbeSe

World Literature

Heinemann

"Harriet Tubman was brave and strong, and she was black like me. I think it was the first time I thought of wanting to be called Harriet--I wanted to be Harriet." Margaret is determined to be someone; to be cool, with style and class and to have a blacker skin. More than anything else she wants to help her best friend, Zulma, escape from Canada and fly back to Tobago to live with her grandmother. In this charming, humorous and perceptive tale of adolescence, Marlene Nourbese Philip explores the friendship of two young black girls and throws into sharp relief the wider issues of culture and identity so relevant to teenagers of all races and colours.

Harriet's Daughter

Children's Books

Womens Pr

She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks

Poetry

Gynergy Books/Ragweed Pr

A military coup sweeps across the twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago. Elvira, a doctor, and Rohan, an English professor, now separated after a stormy marriage, are confined to a beach house during a curfew. Their relationship has foundered on issues of race, identity and politics. The radio informs the beach house of the danger of the insurrection outside. Can they survive their own emotional war? Coups and Calypsos was produced in London, England, and Toronto, and was shortlisted for a Dora Award.

Coups and calypsos: A play

Mercury Press

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