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Synopsis
The spirited daughter of an African writer and a British actress emerges from the shadow of poverty and her father's death to survive, until bigotry--her own as well as others'--leads her to make daring but destructive choices
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Powerful writing (SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE)
I was not there when Charlie Parker started playing between the notes; I could not be there when Billie Holiday pondered the fruit of southern trees ... but musicians aren't the only ones who sing, and I am here when Lucinda Roy makes her startling debut w (NIKKI GIOVANNI)
Roy has created a powerful character in Jacinta ... unflinchingly honest, Jacinta is by turns fascinating and infuriating but always fully human (LIBRARY JOURNAL)
A dazzling debut. Roy handles her complex plot with impressive authority as she tackles themes of racial identity, mental illness and female self-reliance (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY)
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* A hilarious and moving saga of three generations of spirited women set in London, America and Africa
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 006018244X
- ISBN 13 9780060182441
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages382
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hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1998. February 1998. Harper Collins. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket.Remainder Mark. 006018244x. 382 pages. hardcover. Cover: Christine Rodin/Honi Werner. keywords: African American Literature America Women. DESCRIPTION - This debut novel is the story of Jacinta Moses, the child of a passionate and courageous love. Her father, Simon Moses, is a black African writer; her mother, Louise, is a white British actress. Together the family carves out a vibrant life in South London filled with people drawn to Simon's powerful stories of the Africa he left behind. But when Simon Moses dies, Jacinta's mother descends into madness, leaving her daughter impoverished and alone, her only real friend, an unemployed thespian, Alfred Russell-Smyth. Jacinta longs for a better life, to surround herself with beauty, to run 'high and wide and deep.' As she grows older, however, prejudice - her own as well as that of others - leads her to make adventurous but damaging choices in her life. In her quest for happiness and security, Jacinta flees to the American South and marries a white man. But when her daughter, Lady, is born with a disability - ruining her hopes for a picture-perfect life - Jacinta travels with her baby and husband to Africa to search for answers in her father's homeland. Her experiences there change her forever, for it is in Africa, a land that echoes with her father's stories, that she is forced to draw on her family's great strengths and weave something brilliant out of their history of pain. inventory #33798 Very Good in Dustjacket.Remainder Mark. Seller Inventory # z33798
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