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Love enough
By Dionne Brand. 2014
Intersecting stories of people caught in the middle of choices, apprehensions and fears. Each of the tales here - June's,…
Bedri's, Da'uud's, Lia's - opens a different window on the city they all live in, mostly in parallel, but occasionally, delicately, touching and crossing one another. c2014.At the full and change of the moon: a novel
By Dionne Brand. 1999
In 1824, on the island of Trinidad, Marie Ursule arranges a mass suicide among the slaves as an act of…
revolt. However, she cannot bring herself to kill her own daughter, Bola. She is smuggled away and from here begins a story of six generations of Marie Ursule's family as they spread to America, Canada and Europe. Their lives continue to be haunted, and vindicated, by Marie Ursule's dreams and her passion as the story moves through two World Wars and into the violence and confusion of the twentieth century. Some strong language.Theory
By Dionne Brand. 2018
Theory begins as its narrator sets out, like many a graduate student, to write a wildly ambitious thesis on the…
past, present, and future of art, culture, race, gender, class, and politics--a revolutionary work that its author believes will synthesize and thereby transform the world. While our narrator tries to complete this magnum opus, three lovers enter the story, one after the other, each transforming the endeavour: first, there is beautiful and sensual Selah, who scoffs at the narrator's constant tinkering with academic abstractions; then altruistic and passionate Yara, who rescues every lost soul who crosses her path; and finally, spiritual occultist Odalys, who values magic and superstition over the heady intellectual and cultural circles the narrator aspires to inhabit. Each galvanizing love affair (representing, in turn, the heart, the head and the spirit) upends and reorients the narrator's life and, inevitably, requires an overhaul of the ever larger and more unwieldy dissertation, with results both humorous and poignant. 2018.What we all long for
By Dionne Brand. 2005
The overlapping lives of four twenty-somethings: Tuyen is the lesbian daughter of Vietnamese parents who've never recovered from losing one…
of their children; Carla, who's still reeling from her mother's suicide; Oku, a jazz-loving poet in conflict with his father and in love with Jackie, who is a black woman who dates only white men. The fifth character is Quy, the child Tuyen's parents lost. A member of the Thai underworld, he will soon be reunited with his family, but is it to love them or hurt them? 2005.Sans Souci: And Other Stories
By Dionne Brand. 2023
The breathtaking debut short story collection—first published in 1989—from one of Canada's most original and influential writers. Newly available in…
a special reissue edition from Knopf Canada. "This is political art at its searing best."—The Women's Review of BooksSince her the appearance of her novel In Another Place, Not Here, which was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998, award-winning author Dionne Brand has become one of the most revered figures in Canadian fiction. Sans Souci is Brand’s bold fiction debut, collecting eleven stories that breathe life and language into the lives of women in the Caribbean and the Black diaspora, often dealing with the process—and aftermath—of transit and arrival. Brand’s fiction dissects sexual violence, racial prejudice, and war, while attending to the full spectrum of experiences of those who live in the shadow of a shared colonial past—experiences encompassing both joy and sorrow, release and constraint. Now available for the first time in more than a decade, Sans Souci and Other Stories is a foundational work from one of our most cherished literary artists and thinkers.Sans Souci: And Other Stories
By Dionne Brand. 1989
The breathtaking debut short story collection—first published in 1989—from one of Canada's most original and influential writers. Newly available in a…
special reissue edition from Knopf Canada. &“This is political art at its searing best.&”—The Women's Review of BooksSince her the appearance of her novel In Another Place, Not Here, which was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998, award-winning author Dionne Brand has become one of the most revered figures in Canadian fiction. Sans Souci is Brand&’s bold fiction debut, collecting eleven stories that breathe life and language into the lives of women in the Caribbean and the Black diaspora, often dealing with the process—and aftermath—of transit and arrival. Brand&’s fiction dissects sexual violence, racial prejudice, and war, while attending to the full spectrum of experiences of those who live in the shadow of a shared colonial past—experiences encompassing both joy and sorrow, release and constraint. Now available for the first time in more than a decade, Sans Souci and Other Stories is a foundational work from one of our most cherished literary artists and thinkers.