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Finding la negrita

Title
Finding la negrita / Natasha Gordon-Chipembere.
Author
Gordon-Chipembere, Natasha, 1970-
Publication
  • [San Diego, CA] : Jaded Ibis Press, 2022.
  • ©2022

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Description
xi, 303 pages; 22 cm
Summary
Meet Dakarai, a famed African sculptor who must buy his freedom once he is stolen into slavery and separated from his newborn daughter, Jendayi. Her mother has died in childbirth, in the hold of a Middle Passage ship. Husband and child are left to reconcile their grief over her absence and forge a life somehow in the New World. Finding La Negrita spans time and space as it captures Dakarai and Jendayi's reunion, ripe with the secrets and sacrifices a single father confronts while raising a strong-minded young girl coming of age in an era with a precarious line between freedom and enslavement. In those margins, and unbeknownst to each other, they both dare to pursue dangerous new loves beyond the limits of what colonial society will permit. But at what cost to themselves and each other? And in the midst of all this, a future holy relic is born, under circumstances that could put their freedom, if not their very lives, on the line.
Subject
  • Fathers and daughters > Costa Rica > Fiction
  • Teenage girls, Black > Costa Rica > Fiction
  • Liberty > Fiction
  • Bildungsromans
  • Slavery > Costa Rica > Fiction
  • Fathers and daughters
  • Teenage girls, Black
  • Liberty
  • Slavery
  • Costa Rica > Fiction
  • Costa Rica
Genre/Form
Fiction.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
Sc D 23-347
ISBN
  • 9781938841897
  • 1938841891
OCLC
1346532294
Author
Gordon-Chipembere, Natasha, 1970- author.
Title
Finding la negrita / Natasha Gordon-Chipembere.
Publisher
[San Diego, CA] : Jaded Ibis Press, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc D 23-347
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