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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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"[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." -BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL, Author of Your Blues Ain't 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 wasn't born with lighter-colored skin. But when Sara leaves her island's 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 America's 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 students-the beguiling, haunted Courtney and the passionate, vivacious Sam-she is irrevocably pulled into the very center of America's exploding civil rights movement.
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“This powerful illumination of race and culture by the light of dreams, ritual, and Vodoun will remind many of Toni Morrison or Alice Walker." –Booklist (starred review)
“The reader has the pleasure of experiencing Sara’s discovery of American life through Nunez’s wonderful, descriptive voice." –The Bloomsbury Review
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- PublisherSeal Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1580050174
- ISBN 13 9781580050173
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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BEYOND THE LIMBO SILENCE
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition; First Printing. New first edition. Seal Press, hardback, stated: First Printing October 1998, complete number line, Fine/Fine dust jacket. DJ price intact. Unread, 321 pages, unmarked. ISBN 1580050174, FICTION; E3869 N Fic. Seller Inventory # 35154
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. This copy of the Uncorrected Galley Proof has been SIGNED "Best Wishes - Elizabeth Nunez" on the title page! Layering her exploration of racial prejudice and personal identity with the evocative mysticism of West Indian culture, novelist Elizabeth Nunez illuminates a vivid chapter of history and a young black woman's journey to find her place in the world. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 7058
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