Swinging Bridge
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The Swinging Bridge is a moving story of race and displacement that carries the reader effortlessly from 19th-century India to the cane fields of Trinidad, and the contemporary urban centres of North America. Mona, a young Indo-Caribbean woman who grew up in Trinidad, must finally confront not only her own turbulent past, but the secrets of a winding family history begun on the Indian continent almost two centuries ago.
A richly layered novel that is steeped in the lyrical rhythms of Caribbean life, The Swinging Bridge explores the immigrant experience with compassion and humour, giving voice to a heroine whose universal search for self is revealed in worlds marked by violence and shame, but also by love and respect. The fiction debut from a writer with a fresh and unique talent, The Swinging Bridge resonates long after the final page.
A richly layered novel that is steeped in the lyrical rhythms of Caribbean life, The Swinging Bridge explores the immigrant experience with compassion and humour, giving voice to a heroine whose universal search for self is revealed in worlds marked by violence and shame, but also by love and respect. The fiction debut from a writer with a fresh and unique talent, The Swinging Bridge resonates long after the final page.
Journal Entry 2 by fracula at -- Wild Released Somewhere In Calgary in Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, June 27, 2015
Released 8 yrs ago (6/27/2015 UTC) at -- Wild Released Somewhere In Calgary in Calgary, Alberta Canada
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Released for the 2015 Canada Release Challenge
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Hello and congratulations!
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If you have not already done so, please make a journal entry so we know this book has found a new home. You don't need to join BookCrossing and you can remain completely anonymous. However, we encourage you to join so that you can follow this book's future travels. It's fun and free, and your personal information will never be shared or sold. If you decide to join, consider listing Fracula as referring you.
If it's not your cup of tea, pass it on and consider this as your invitation to the wonderful world of BookCrossing!
Enjoy. Good Book Karma to You!
I caught THE SWINGING BRIDGE at a Little Free Library box in Calgary's Huntington Hills area. It was not bad of a summer's read. The proses were simple and breezy just like its Indo-Caribbean characters and settings. Have a good read if you can find it at another LFL locale!
