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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Colvin, Jeffrey, author.     Subjects     Enslaved persons -- Fiction.     African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.     Black people -- Canada -- Fiction.     Race relations -- Fiction.     Passing (Identity) -- Fiction.     Families -- Fiction.     Nova Scotia -- History -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Colvin, Jeffrey, author.       by title:      Africaville : a nove...         MARC Display

Africaville : a novel / Jeffrey Colvin. by Colvin, Jeffrey, author. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] Subjects Enslaved persons -- Fiction.   African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.   Black people -- Canada -- Fiction.   Race relations -- Fiction.   Passing (Identity) -- Fiction.   Families -- Fiction.   Nova Scotia -- History -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780062913722 (hardcover) 0062913727 (hardcover) Description:  371 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, [the novel] depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time, and fate. Structured as a triptych, Africaville chronicles the lives of three generations of the Sebolt family--Kath Ella, her son Omar/Etienne, and her grandson Warner--whose lives unfold against the tumultuous events of the twentieth century from the Great Depression of the 1930s, through the social protests of the 1960s to the economic upheavals in the 1980s. A century earlier, Kath Ella's ancestors established a new home in Nova Scotia. Like her ancestors, Kath Ella's life is shaped by hardship--she struggles to conceive and to provide for her family during the long, bitter Canadian winters. She must also contend with the locals' lingering suspicions about the dark-skinned "outsiders" who live in their midst. Kath Ella's fierce love for her son, Omar, cannot help her overcome the racial prejudices that linger in this remote, tight-knit place. As he grows up, the rebellious Omar refutes the past and decides to break from the family, threatening to upend all that Kath Ella and her people have tried to build. Over the decades, each successive generation drifts further from Africaville, yet they take a piece of this indelible place with them as they make their way to Montreal, Vermont, and beyond, to the deep South of America. As it explores notions of identity, passing, cross-racial relationships, the importance of place, and the meaning of home, Africaville tells the larger story of the black experience in parts of Canada and the United States"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hana P/S Library Adult Fiction Colvin Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Fiction Colvin Checked In Add Copy to MyList Laupahoehoe P/S Library Adult Fiction Colvin Checked In Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Fiction Colvin Checked In Add Copy to MyList Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library Adult Fiction Colvin Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wailuku Public Library Adult Fiction Colvin Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waipahu Public Library Adult Fiction Colvin Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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