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Cargando... Finding Edwardpor Sheila Murray
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. In Sheila Murray’s vibrant, melancholy debut novel, Finding Edward, young Cyril Rowntree leaves his home in Jamaica after his mother’s death for a new life in Canada, where he enrols at Ryerson University. With a soft-spoken, reticent nature and feeling very much an outsider in his new country, Cyril does not make friends easily. A chance encounter with a street person, Patricia, whose forceful manner and charming eccentricities Cyril find hard to resist, leads him toward a mystery that becomes his passion. On display in a local church, Patricia shows Cyril a cache of photographs and documents from the 1920s depicting Edward Davina, a boy at the time the pictures were taken, whose fate is unknown. Cyril sees himself in the boy Edward and feels enough of a connection to take up the challenge of discovering what happened to him. Scant clues direct Cyril’s archival research, and despite setbacks and distractions, over the following months a picture begins to emerge of the unsettled and impoverished life Edward led, where it took him, and what he suffered. Finding Edward depicts, often in gut-wrenching terms, the iconic and difficult story of growing up black in Canada over the last century. Murray’s novel, undeniably a triumph of historical reconstruction, is deliberately paced and somewhat overlong, but it tells a compelling and necessary story of ingrained social injustice that is long past due for a reckoning. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary AwardLonglisted for Canada Reads 2023A Globe and Mail Best Book Cyril Rowntree migrates to Toronto from Jamaica in 2012. Managing a precarious balance of work and university he begins to navigate his way through the implications of being racialized in his challenging new land. A chance encounter with a panhandler named Patricia leads Cyril to a suitcase full of photographs and letters dating back to the early 1920s. Cyril is drawn into the letters and their story of a white mother's struggle with the need to give up her mixed race baby, Edward. Abandoned by his own white father as a small child, Cyril's keen intuition triggers a strong connection and he begins to look for the rest of Edward's story. As he searches, Cyril unearths fragments of Edward's itinerant life as he crisscrossed the country. Along the way, he discovers hidden pieces of Canada's Black history and gains the confidence to take on his new world. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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When I heard about this book, I thought it might sacrifice the story for the teaching about Black history, but I worried needlessly. It's a good story about Cyril's search for Edward and for his own path forward. Yes, you will learn a few things, but you will also have a most entertaining read. ( )