Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas

Essays

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Pub Date Jul 02 2024 | Archive Date May 31 2024

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A diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion.

In this powerful and deeply personal essay collection, Gloria Blizzard, in an international diasporic quest, moves up and down an urban subway line; between Canada and Trinidad; to and from a hospital emergency room; back and forth in time — and as a descendent of Africa living in the Americas, negotiates the complexities of culture, geography, race, and language. Through food, music, dance, and family history, Blizzard explores the art of belonging — to a family, a neighbourhood, a group, or a country. Using traditional narrative and the tools of poetry, Blizzard’s essays hover at the crossroads, in the spaces where art, science, and spirit collide. The intimate becomes universal, the questions are all relevant, and the answers of our times require a sleight of hand — the holding of simultaneous and overlapping worlds.

A diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion.

In this powerful and deeply personal essay collection, Gloria Blizzard, in an international diasporic quest, moves up and down an urban...


Advance Praise

"Mesmerizing, lyrical, and cadenced, Gloria Blizzard’s essays move like music." — Ayelet Tsabari, author of The Art of Leaving

"Gloria effortlessly weaves elements of her life — its challenges and its gifts — into contemporary conversations about identity, feminism, the diaspora, art, and belonging." — Lorri Neilsen Glenn, author of The Old Man in Her Arms

"Mesmerizing, lyrical, and cadenced, Gloria Blizzard’s essays move like music." — Ayelet Tsabari, author of The Art of Leaving

"Gloria effortlessly weaves elements of her life — its challenges and its...


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ISBN 9781459752801
PRICE $19.99 (USD)
PAGES 208

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