Dominoes at the crossroads
In this short story collection, characters navigate race, history, and coming of age through their confessions and dreams.
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- ISBN: 1550655310
- ISBN: 9781550655315
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211 pages : illustration - Publisher Montréal, Québec : Esplanade Books, [2020]
- Copyright ©2020
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General Note: | Short stories. Canadian author. |
Formatted Contents Note: | La question ordinaire et extraordinaire -- Porcelain nubians -- Shooting the general -- Dominoes at the crossroads -- Witness -- Petit marronage -- We free kings -- Navette -- Capital -- Ashes and Juju -- Smoke that thundered -- Notes of a hand. |
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Dominoes at the Crossroads
In Dominoes at the Crossroads Kaie Kellough maps an alternate nation--one populated by Caribbean Canadians who hopscotch across the country. The characters navigate race, class, and coming-of-age. Seeking opportunity, some fade into the world around them, even as their minds hitchhike, dream, and soar. Some appear in different times and hemispheres, whether as student radicals, secret agents, historians, fugitive slaves, or jazz musicians. From the cobblestones of Montreal's Old Port through the foliage of a South American rainforest; from a basement in wartime Paris to a metro in Montréal during the October Crisis; Kellough's fierce imagination reconciles the personal and ancestral experience with the present moment, grappling with the abiding feeling of being elsewhere, even when here.