Pamela Mordecai

Red Jacket

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2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2015 - Short-listedAs she comes into adulthood, Grace confronts the mystery of her own identity and the story of her birth mother in this sprawling, large-hearted novel.Growing up on the Caribbean island of St. Chris, Grace Carpenter never feels like she really belongs. Although her large, extended family is black, she is a redibo. Her skin is copper-coloured, her hair is red, and her eyes are grey. A neighbour taunts her, calling her a little red jacket, but the reason for the insult is never explained. Only much later does Grace learn the story of her birth mother and decipher the mystery surrounding… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4597-2942-1
EAN: 9781459729421
Produktnummer: 20461237
Verlag: Dundurn
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 738 KB

Über den Autor

Pamela Mordecai was born in Jamaica. She has published five collections of poetry and an anthology of short fiction. She has also written many textbooks and edited or co-edited groundbreaking anthologies of Caribbean writing. Her poetry for children is widely anthologized. Her poems have been shortlisted for the Canada Writes CBC Poetry Prize and the Bridport Prize (U.K.). She is the recipient of the Institute of Jamaica's Centenary and Bronze Musgrave Medals, the Vic Reid Award for Children's Writing, and the Burla Award. Pamela lives in Kitchener.