Finding Edward
Autor Sheila Murrayen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iun 2022
Longlisted for the Toronto Book Award
Longlisted for Canada Reads 2023
A Globe and Mail Best Book
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 with a panhandler named Patricia leads Cyril to a suitcase full of photographs and letters dating back to the early 1920s. Cyril is drawn into the letters and their story of a white mother’s struggle with the need to give up her mixed race baby, Edward. Abandoned by his own white father as a small child, Cyril’s keen intuition triggers a strong connection and he begins to look for the rest of Edward’s story.
As he searches, Cyril unearths fragments of Edward’s itinerant life as he crisscrossed the country. Along the way, he discovers hidden pieces of Canada’s Black history and gains the confidence to take on his new world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781770866263
ISBN-10: 1770866264
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: CORMORANT BOOKS
Colecția Cormorant Books
Locul publicării:Toronto, Canada
ISBN-10: 1770866264
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: CORMORANT BOOKS
Colecția Cormorant Books
Locul publicării:Toronto, Canada
Recenzii
“Murray’s rich narrative offers mystery, but it also spans decades of Canadian history, differentiating Finding Edward from the typical immigrant story. The prospect of better understanding Edward’s life in Canada offers Cyril an escape from his own excruciating isolation. Murray triumphs in capturing the undeniable and unmistakable ache of severe loneliness.”
“Powerful”
“Sheila Murray’s debut novel Finding Edward is a significant literary work that gives a voice to the voiceless and infuses the present with a previously unrecorded past, bridging much of the black experience in twentieth century Canada, from Africville to the lumber camps of British Columbia.”
“… Finding Edward offers readers a clear-sighted and deeply felt novel, which reminds us there are more ways of knowing what happened in the past than just knowing what happened. This is a powerful debut that considers the history and the present of Black people through a truly vibrant set of characters.”
“A tremendous debut novel that captivates you from the first sentence to the last. A beautiful tale told with deep humanity, so raw and real, it could only be written from the soul. Sheila Murray’s prose is exquisite, and her gift for storytelling is a delight and a treasure.”
“Finding Edward is … both a serious look at societal stagnation and change as well as a tender tale of what it means to be biracial in Canada in two different eras and provinces, which makes this redemptive, intimate, and special novel well worth reading.”
“Sheila Murray writes lush descriptions and dialogue with the density and harmony of a symphony. … Finding Edward is both an engagingly executed and compelling fictional tale and an important historical document.”
“Powerful”
“Sheila Murray’s debut novel Finding Edward is a significant literary work that gives a voice to the voiceless and infuses the present with a previously unrecorded past, bridging much of the black experience in twentieth century Canada, from Africville to the lumber camps of British Columbia.”
“… Finding Edward offers readers a clear-sighted and deeply felt novel, which reminds us there are more ways of knowing what happened in the past than just knowing what happened. This is a powerful debut that considers the history and the present of Black people through a truly vibrant set of characters.”
“A tremendous debut novel that captivates you from the first sentence to the last. A beautiful tale told with deep humanity, so raw and real, it could only be written from the soul. Sheila Murray’s prose is exquisite, and her gift for storytelling is a delight and a treasure.”
“Finding Edward is … both a serious look at societal stagnation and change as well as a tender tale of what it means to be biracial in Canada in two different eras and provinces, which makes this redemptive, intimate, and special novel well worth reading.”
“Sheila Murray writes lush descriptions and dialogue with the density and harmony of a symphony. … Finding Edward is both an engagingly executed and compelling fictional tale and an important historical document.”