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When Banana Stains Fade: A Jamaican Family Saga of Adversity and Redemption

When Banana Stains Fade: A Jamaican Family Saga of Adversity and Redemption - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Frances-Marie CokePublish date:2024-04-11Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Black Rose WritingISBN-13:9781685133962ISBN-10:1685133967UPC:9781685133962Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Literary, Diversity & MulticulturalBook Topic:Caribbean & West IndiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SC6H5ZNFYT

"When Banana Stains Fade will draw its readers into the compelling drama of over four generations of a Jamaican family, told through the lifeline of its women." -Rachel Manley, author and winner of 1997 Governor General's Award for Literature in Canada for Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood

When twenty-six-year-old Zarah returns home in 2002, desperate to reconcile with the family she abandoned, their first night together revives memories of events that led to her abandonment and their hopes fizzle.

Their reflections take the reader back to the inciting event years before... her thirteenth birthday, the onslaught of Hurricane Gilbert, her mother's shocking miscarriage, and her parents' separation.

Determined to warn Zarah against life's treacheries, her grandmother Naomi discloses ugly societal and family secrets, but Zarah distances herself, scoffing at hints of a curse hatched on a banana field decades before.

As damaged as the ancestors she once disdained, Zarah finds true friendship at a support group, accepts culpability, and finds her way home to battle for the awakening and reconciliation essential to wholeness.

When her grandmother dies, Esther and Bradley travel with Zarah to the spot Naomi requested, and she sprinkles her grandmother's ashes over the ocean, standing on the threshold of her second chance to become "the right person."


Language:EnglishPublisher:Black Rose WritingISBN-13:9781685133962ISBN-10:1685133967UPC:9781685133962Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Literary, Diversity & MulticulturalBook Topic:Caribbean & West IndiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SC6H5ZNFYT
Publisher: Black Rose Writing

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