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Cargando... Book of the Little Axe (2020 original; edición 2020)por Lauren Francis-Sharma (Autor)
Información de la obraBook of the Little Axe por Lauren Francis-Sharma (2020)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book alternates between two storylines. Victor, the son of Rosa, lives with the Crow Nation in Montana. He is on the cusp of manhood and struggling to find his vision. A young Rosa, lives in Trinidad, where her family expects her to cook, clean, and take care of the household. Rosa's talents lie in running the field and working outside, putting her in conflict with her family. This book was a very interesting mix of stories and cultures. I particularly enjoyed reading about Trinidad, a place I know virtually nothing about. The book did not have a true ending, which I found extremely frustrating. Overall, 4 out of 5 stars. Rosa Rendon, the daughter of a free-Black Trinidadian property owner, never fits into the 1790’s Trinidad. By 1830, she’s living with the Crow nation in what is now Montana. Married to a chief , she is raising mixed-race children. When her son grows up and comes across an old diary in Rosa’s belongings, he starts to realize why he cannot fit into the tribe and this takes the two of them on a journey reexplore her Caribbean past. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Fiction.
African American Fiction.
Historical Fiction.
In Trinidad, in 1796, teenage Rosa Rendon quietly but purposefully rebels against typical female roles and behavior. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house-it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she expects to be her birthright, despite her two older siblings. But as her homeland goes from Spanish to British rule, it becomes increasingly unclear whether its free black property owners-Rosa's family among them-will be allowed to keep their assets, their land, and ultimately, their freedom. By 1830, Rosa is living among the Crow Nation in Bighorn, Wyoming, with her husband, Edward Rose and family. Her son Victor has reached the age where he should seek his vision and become a man. But his path is blocked by secrets Rosa has kept hidden from him. So Rosa sets out to take him on a journey to where his story began and, in turn, retraces her own roots, those of a girl who forged her own way from the middle of the ocean to the grassy hills of a far-away land. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Quote: “The English had come and disrupted their lives, with their perfect mismanagement and indecision and inconsistency, with their slow unraveling terror, with their chaos that prevented sure footing, and caused them never to be certain of what would be theirs.” ( )