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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
One World
Publication date
July 1, 2003
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780345451088
ISBN-10
0345451082
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.60 lbs.
Original list price
$16.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
When Sara Edgehill leaves her home in Trinidad to attend college in Wisconsin, she finds solace and friendship with Courtney, another West Indian who covertly practices voodoo rituals, and Sam, a charismatic civil rights activist. Reprint.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: â[A] haunting story . . . Bears witness to the struggles of an African Caribbean woman as she seeks to find her place in America without selling her soul.â âBEBE MOORE CAMPBELL, Author of Your Blues Ainât Like Mine
When Sara Edgehill is given a scholarship to leave Trinidad and attend a college in Wisconsin, she is thrilled. America, the one she has seen in the movies, is a land of dreams, prosperity, and equality. Not like Trinidad, where her parents cast disappointed glances her way because she wasnât born with lighter-colored skin. But when Sara leaves her islandâs brilliant green fields and warm sparkling waters for the pale cornfields of the Midwest, the ties to her home and her past grip her as strongly as Americaâs cold, winter winds.
For as soon as Sara sets foot in her new home, she must make tough decisions. Wanting desperately to fit in, she begins to understand that in America, the color lines run deeper than they did even in Trinidad. And as Sara forms ties with two other West Indian studentsâthe beguiling, haunted Courtney and the passionate, vivacious Samâshe is irrevocably pulled into the very center of Americaâs exploding civil rights movement.
When Sara Edgehill is given a scholarship to leave Trinidad and attend a college in Wisconsin, she is thrilled. America, the one she has seen in the movies, is a land of dreams, prosperity, and equality. Not like Trinidad, where her parents cast disappointed glances her way because she wasnât born with lighter-colored skin. But when Sara leaves her islandâs brilliant green fields and warm sparkling waters for the pale cornfields of the Midwest, the ties to her home and her past grip her as strongly as Americaâs cold, winter winds.
For as soon as Sara sets foot in her new home, she must make tough decisions. Wanting desperately to fit in, she begins to understand that in America, the color lines run deeper than they did even in Trinidad. And as Sara forms ties with two other West Indian studentsâthe beguiling, haunted Courtney and the passionate, vivacious Samâshe is irrevocably pulled into the very center of Americaâs exploding civil rights movement.
Editions
Hardcover
from Seal Pr (October 1, 1998)
9781580050173 | details & prices | 321 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $24.00
About: When Sara Edgehill leaves her home in Trinidad to attend college in Wisconsin, she finds solace and friendship with Courtney, another West Indian who covertly practices voodoo rituals, and Sam, a charismatic civil rights activist
About: When Sara Edgehill leaves her home in Trinidad to attend college in Wisconsin, she finds solace and friendship with Courtney, another West Indian who covertly practices voodoo rituals, and Sam, a charismatic civil rights activist
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from One World (July 1, 2003)
9780345451088 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $16.00
About: When Sara Edgehill leaves her home in Trinidad to attend college in Wisconsin, she finds solace and friendship with Courtney, another West Indian who covertly practices voodoo rituals, and Sam, a charismatic civil rights activist.
About: When Sara Edgehill leaves her home in Trinidad to attend college in Wisconsin, she finds solace and friendship with Courtney, another West Indian who covertly practices voodoo rituals, and Sam, a charismatic civil rights activist.
from Seal Pr (October 1, 1998)
9781580050135 | details & prices | 321 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $12.95
About: When Sara Edgehill leaves her home in Trinidad to attend college in Wisconsin, she finds solace and friendship with Courtney, another West Indian who covertly practices voodoo rituals, and Sam, a charismatic civil rights activist
About: When Sara Edgehill leaves her home in Trinidad to attend college in Wisconsin, she finds solace and friendship with Courtney, another West Indian who covertly practices voodoo rituals, and Sam, a charismatic civil rights activist
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