Independence / Cecil Foster.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443415057 (hc.)
- Physical Description: 317 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st edition.
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd., 2013.
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Subject: | Friendship > Fiction. Friendship in adolescence > Fiction. Grandparents as parents > Fiction. Barbados > History > Fiction. |
Genre: | Bildungsromans. Canadian fiction. Black fiction. |
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- 4 of 4 copies available at Sitka.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Castlegar Public Library | FIC FOS (Text) | 35146001847722 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library | F FOS (Text) | DCL145521 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Hazelton Public Library | Fic (Text) | 35154000057624 | Adult Fiction - Main Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
Miami Library | F Fos (Text) | 35864001788551 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- HARPERCOLL
Cecil Foster is a wise man with a flair for storytelling and writing that enters the heart.â QUILL & QUIRE (STARRED REVIEW)
Independence is the deeply moving story of the coming of age of a country and a boy, at the time of Barbadosâ independence from Britain in 1966. Fourteen-year-old Christopher Lucas and Stephanie King have been neighbours and best friends since they were born a few months apart. They have been raised by their impoverished grandmothers after their mothers went âover ânâ awayâ to the United States and Canada to find work when the children were toddlers; no one has heard from the mothers since. The grandmothers are growing more and more desperate about their ability to support their charges. When the novel opens, there is a sudden and unexplained rift between Christopher and Stephanie following the return from Canada of a benefactor named Mr. Lashley, who lavishes gifts on Stephanie.
Through a series of triumphs and catastrophes, Christopher and Stephanie determine their places in the world and take control of their lives. Rich with the details of Bajan culturefrom food preparation to political and financial affairs, from sexuality to spiritualityIndependence is a fascinating window onto a little-known world and a touching portrait of a journey to adulthood and the women who guide it.