The Islands: Stories Irving Dionne
The Islands: Stories Irving Dionne Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoicePowerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of…
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The Islands: Stories Irving Dionne
Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoicePowerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual discrimination, and class in the lives of Jamaican women across London, Panama, France, Jamaica, Florida and moreThe Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women--immigrants or the descendants of immigrants--who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism on what they call the Island. In one story, a woman and her husband impulsively leave San Francisco and move to Florida with wild dreams of American reinvention only to unearth the cracks in their marriage. Set in the United States, Jamaica, and Europe, these international stories examine the lives of an uncertain and unsettled cast of characters.
In another, the only Jamaican mother--who
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