Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Fiction for African Heritage Month


Reparations by Stephen Kimber

Two boyhood friends, one black, one white meet later in life and face-off as lawyer and judge in a trial about the demolition of Africville. - Back cover



George & Rue by George Elliott Clarke

Based on a 1949 murder in New Brunswick, George & Rue tells the imagined story of the lives and deaths of the two brothers who killed a taxi driver.




No Crystal Stair by Mairuth Sarsfield

A 2005 Canada Reads selection, this novel explores the reality of a young widow bringing up three girls who experience Canada's subtle racism.

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