Sunday, October 07, 2007

New Reviews For October 2007

Be on the lookout for new reviews this month:

One Drop: A True Story of Family, Race and Secrets by Bliss Broyard.

Two months before he died of cancer, Bliss Broyard’s father, literary critic Anatole Broyard revealed to his son and daughter that he was black.

Now Bliss Broyard is forced to face her own beliefs and thoughts on racial identity.

The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade by William St Clair

A fascinating look into the castle on the Ghana coastline that served as the slave-trading headquarters for the British empire for 150 years.

Cion by Zakes Mda

The South African author of The Madonna of Excelsior, The Heart of Redness, among others, brings one of his most memorable characters Toloki, from his novel Ways of Dying to Athens, Ohio. Toloki is a professional mourner. He has tired of the sameness of death in his own country. This is Mda’s first novel set in America.

Posted by Dorothy Ferebee on 10/07 at 05:23 PM
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