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Dream country
- Title
- Dream country / Shannon Gibney.
- Author
- Gibney, Shannon
- Publication
- New York, NY : Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- 335 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Spanning two centuries and two continents, Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people caught in a spiral of death and exile between Liberia and the United States"--
- "Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people from one African American family chasing an elusive dream across centuries and continents. Gibney conjures an ambitious, sinuous novel from a family tree twisted to its breaking point by slavery and colonialism but ultimately held together by hope and determination"--
- 2008, Minneapolis. Kollie Flomo, at once too black and not black enough for his African American peers and worn down by the expectations of his own Liberian family and community, turns to violence. 1926, Liberia. Togar Somah, an indigenous Liberian, is on the run from government militias that would force him to work the plantations of the Congo people, descendants of the African American slaves who colonized Liberia almost a century earlier. 1827. The children of Yasmine Wright leave a Virginia plantation with their mother for Liberia, promised freedom by the American Colonization Society. 1980. Ujay and Evelyn dare to believe their love can survive Liberia's approaching revolution. 2018, Minneapolis. A dreamer attempts to weave her family's history into a new future.-- adapted from jacket.
- Subject
- Families > Liberia > Juvenile fiction
- Families > Minnesota > Juvenile fiction
- African American families > Minnesota > Juvenile fiction
- Slavery > Juvenile fiction
- Refugees > Juvenile fiction
- Liberian Americans > Juvenile fiction
- African Americans > Juvenile fiction
- Americans > Liberia > Juvenile fiction
- Families
- Slavery
- Refugees
- Liberian Americans
- African Americans
- Liberia > History > To 1847 > Juvenile fiction
- Liberia > History > 1847-1944 > Juvenile fiction
- Liberia
- Minnesota
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- Sc D 18-682
- ISBN
- 9780735231672
- 0735231672
- LCCN
- 2017055923
- OCLC
- 1016403949
- Author
- Gibney, Shannon, author.
- Title
- Dream country / Shannon Gibney.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 18-682