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"They thought that the time would come when they would live, they would get a take chances to be what they saw, that was part of the hope that kept them. Simply ghostly, ghostly this hope, sucking their jaws into lemon seed, kiwi middle, skeletons of pawpaw, light-green banana stalk."- Dionne Brand, In Some other Place, Non Here

If a favourite poet writes a novel, I'g probably going to read it, specially when the poet is Dionne Brand. I'm writing this review very soon after reading Brand's non-fiction book, "A Grand

"They idea that the fourth dimension would come when they would live, they would get a adventure to exist what they saw, that was part of the hope that kept them. But ghostly, ghostly this promise, sucking their jaws into lemon seed, kiwi heart, skeletons of pawpaw, green banana stem."- Dionne Brand, In Another Place, Not Here

If a favourite poet writes a novel, I'm probably going to read information technology, especially when the poet is Dionne Brand. I'm writing this review very soon later on reading Make'southward not-fiction book, "A Map to the Door of No Return", and I'm seeing her experiences and thoughts on immigration, identity, the diaspora, colonialism etc in that book, displayed in this volume. Prior to this I'd only read a few volumes of her poems; in prose course, she is merely remarkable and this is a cute, intricate book. It did take me a while to get used to the linguistic communication simply once I got into the flow of things it was wonderful.

This book is set in Ontario, Canada and an unnamed Caribbean island (possibly Grenada?). The main stories are those of Elizete and Verlia. Verlia immigrates to Canada as a teenager, becomes a fellow member of the black ability movement in 1970s Toronto, and so goes back to her isle to try to ignite a revolution in that location with the exploited sugarcane workers. She meets and becomes lovers with Elizete, who eventually moves to Canada herself. The women's lives as immigrants in Canada were very difficult and transformative. When Verlia moves to Sudbury, Ontario to live with her relatives, her observations of whiteness as a black immigrant to Canada were quite interesting. She witnesses and questions the absorption approach of her aunt and uncle and how this is toxic and seems to issue in their emotional death. Equally immigrants are we supposed to cover whiteness? Verlia decided she didn't desire to:

"They are imaginary. They accept come as far north as they could imagine. And they have imagined themselves into the white town's imagining. They have come here to get away from Blackness people, to show white people that they are harmless, merely like them. This lie will kill them. Neat her uncle's heart. Wrought the iron in Aunt Idrisse's voice."

This book made me think, and at times information technology touched on personal thoughts or the many stories I've heard about from fellow-immigrants: immigration isn't easy. The tough life of a single, black female immigrant in 1970s Canada must have been even tougher. Brand is honest with her portrayal of Canada, and how others often perceive information technology in a way that sugarcoats very real bug:

"Except that anybody is from someplace else but this city does non give them a chance to say this; it pushes their confusion hole-and-corner, it wraps them in the aforementioned skin and slides them to the side similar so much meat wrapped in dark-brown paper."

In this Brexit era when so many immigrants hear the phrase, "Go dorsum home", it's a adept time to empathise why certain immigration patterns fifty-fifty happened. Oft people rarely take into account history and how damaging and pervasive the ills of the Empire have been. There'southward a realization by and then many of us that in that location is no place where nosotros tin be truly gratuitous because of history and neocolonialism.

I appreciated this volume for highlighting the traumatic experiences of clearing. There were several passages that were heartbreaking because they spoke to loneliness, depression, defoliation, waiting...:

"She was working edges. If she could straighten out the seam she'd curled herself into, iron it out like a wrinkle, sprinkle some water on it then fe it out, careful, careful non to fire..."

"She has too much to tell. That's the respond, likewise much she holds and no place to put it down that would be rubber."

"She was trying to collect herself again, bring her mind back from wherever the pieces had gone skittering. She had deserted herself she knew, given up a continent of voices she knew and so for fragmented ones."

This is definitely a book I think will entreatment to many. Information technology's beautifully-written, very thoughtful, and gives a vocalisation to Caribbean immigrant women in the big city in Canada.

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Oct 03, 2008 jo rated information technology it was amazing

the first half of this book is prose verse written in what i tin can all-time describe as trinidadian english language, considering that is the island-english language i've heard that almost closely approximates the linguistic communication of this book. maybe information technology's another island. certainly it's some other island. many of the localities accept french names. i don't think localities in trinidad have french names.

however, it'due south the caribbean and life is hell and ii women love each other just life is hell and something happens to ane of them and the ot

the first half of this volume is prose poesy written in what i tin can best describe as trinidadian english, considering that is the island-english language i've heard that most closely approximates the language of this book. maybe information technology'southward another island. certainly it's another isle. many of the localities have french names. i don't think localities in trinidad take french names.

still, it'southward the caribbean and life is hell and 2 women love each other only life is hell and something happens to one of them and the other goes to canada to await for her.

life is hell because it'due south brutalized past 500 years of slavery and 500 years of exploitation and the isle is a prison house just as well home and life is lived in the dark shadow of trauma.

brand's description of elizete's life in canada is amazing and if y'all have left your country (whatever country at all) to motility to a north american city you will know exactly what she is talking about. (this is true fifty-fifty if you are coming from another "outset world" state, though your life will probably have been infinitely improve as far as material conditions are concerned).

the 2d function is too prose poetry but it's in standard canadian english and the poetry is less surrealistic. this office belongs to elizete's lover, and information technology besides describes hell and Verlia's efforts at making information technology better past joining a black power movement and trying to organize blackness people in canada and the caribbean, simply to exist quashed mercilessly by the US-propped local dictatorships.

you can read this book for the story and you'll exist happy you did.
you tin can read this book for the language and you'll be happy you did.
you lot tin can read this book for the hell and you'll be happy you did.

just you accept to be into all three. if y'all are not, this book volition be hard. i found information technology amazing and now i want to read everything this woman has written.

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The kickoff office of this novel is admittedly incredible, "poetic" in the best sense of a word that is also frequently express to being lyrical. What is most special most Make's writing is how she employs logical rhetorical forms and devices in means I've never seen. Her writing is too poetical in the sense that y'all want to read each passage once again. The result is difficult, but unusually rewarding. You need to let yourself flow along with the electric current of the prose, not trying to understand everythin The commencement part of this novel is absolutely incredible, "poetic" in the best sense of a word that is too often express to beingness lyrical. What is about special nigh Brand's writing is how she employs logical rhetorical forms and devices in ways I've never seen. Her writing is also poetical in the sense that you desire to read each passage over over again. The result is difficult, merely unusually rewarding. You need to let yourself period along with the current of the prose, not trying to understand everything or put information technology all together. That's meliorate left for another reading.

But I found the second part of the novel, when the focus shifts from ane character to another, not near as good. The second character is not as interesting just, more than important, Brand changes the style of the prose with the change of graphic symbol, a conclusion I would ordinarily welcome, only it felt like falling downwardly a hillside to me. The writing is still first-class, only I frankly wish the novel would have ended, that the two parts would have been published separately as novellas even though they relate to 1 another.

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Jun 24, 2020 Alma Alma rated information technology really liked it

It has taken me so long to finish this but information technology was and then necessary. Definitely a researchives, on voice, an accurate one, undistilled. Just information technology was and then fitting, Trinidad and Canada and blackness and how elusive reality can be. Dionne make writes so honestly, I wish I had come across her sooner. Her blahs, adult female middle more fitting to me than Eavan Boland or Margaret Atwood whose verse I admire so much. But Brand'south work is centre wrenching and elegiac, ever grief and life tied upwardly in each other. It has taken me and then long to end this only it was so necessary. Definitely a researchives, on vocalism, an authentic one, undistilled. But it was and so fitting, Trinidad and Canada and black and how elusive reality tin be. Dionne brand writes so honestly, I wish I had come across her sooner. Her blahs, woman centre more fitting to me than Eavan Boland or Margaret Atwood whose poetry I adore so much. But Make's work is heart wrenching and elegiac, ever grief and life tied up in each other. I pray to be guided by her writing, the stories that won't exit me, the complete compulsion of being in ones ain experience and that the virtually important thing. ...more

February 25, 2020 Janet rated it it was amazing

This is challenging reading but so worth information technology. Somehow she crosses time and space in this work that offers two dissever life narratives of two women who loved each other. It's just an incredible work that I will read again. This is challenging reading but so worth it. Somehow she crosses time and space in this work that offers two separate life narratives of two women who loved each other. It'southward simply an incredible work that I will read once again. ...more than

For readers unaccustomed to the Blackness Caribbean area vernacular that begins Dionne Brand's 1996 novel In Some other Place, Non Hither—like me—at that place's a scrap of an initial hurdle to bound over to sink into this volume. But trust me, it's worth information technology; and sink in you truly exercise. Brand is an exhilarating poet and although this is a novel, it's definitely a poet's novel. In that location is something—many things, in fact—deliciously seductive well-nigh the language, which rolls, rises, falls, and flows its way throughout the narrati For readers unaccustomed to the Blackness Caribbean area vernacular that begins Dionne Brand's 1996 novel In Some other Place, Not Here—like me—there's a bit of an initial hurdle to leap over to sink into this book. But trust me, information technology's worth it; and sink in you truly do. Brand is an exhilarating poet and although this is a novel, it'southward definitely a poet's novel. There is something—many things, in fact—deliciously seductive near the language, which rolls, rises, falls, and flows its way throughout the narrative similar a river....
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Jul 11, 2014 Eyona Goree rated it it was amazing

In Another Place, Non Here is written in such an achingly gorgeous fashion, that if approached with sensitivity and a willingness to immerse yourself into the world provided, which you must in order to cease, it will go out you heartbroken, only transformed. Make poetically and philosophically writes of beloved, abandonment, resistance, the emotional liberation and trauma of immigration, global perceptions of blackness inside and without of the disapora, exploitation, and the always elusive elsewhere In Some other Place, Non Here is written in such an achingly gorgeous style, that if approached with sensitivity and a willingness to immerse yourself into the earth provided, which you lot must in society to finish, it will leave you heartbroken, but transformed. Brand poetically and philosophically writes of love, abandonment, resistance, the emotional liberation and trauma of immigration, global perceptions of blackness inside and without of the disapora, exploitation, and the ever elusive elsewhere. It is an riveting read, just not an like shooting fish in a barrel ane. Notwithstanding, it is worthwhile. Information technology volition leave y'all saddened, but soft and reflective. I know this a novel I'll revisit. ...more than

January 24, 2018 Or ha rated it actually liked it

Where practice we begin?

I like her way. Brand concocts the Caribbean area in rich images. You effort to follow the word's choreography as they trip the light fantastic away from you, unsure how y'all concluded up on the dance floor in the first place. She drops you in the midst. The story slips past and I tried to regain my bearings.

Only she is telling our stories mostly heard, seldom written. How grandmas odor blood for legitimacy, how elders watch your confront and know who and who is family. Entwined with the stories of these ii

Where practice we begin?

I similar her mode. Brand concocts the Caribbean in rich images. You attempt to follow the discussion'southward choreography as they trip the light fantastic toe away from y'all, unsure how yous ended up on the dance floor in the kickoff identify. She drops y'all in the midst. The story slips by and I tried to regain my bearings.

But she is telling our stories mostly heard, seldom written. How grandmas smell claret for legitimacy, how elders sentry your face and know who and who is family. Entwined with the stories of these two Caribbean women lovers who are found and lost to one some other, to themselves and to the land on which they stand.

I was t/here with the characters in the identify between the covers.

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To be honest I felt like an envious outsider/tourist almost voyeuristically looking in a 'locals' window for the real/authentic experience I was always hoping to discover. It was akin to walking over to the pavilion for the nightly, completely-choreographed-for-plain-vanilla-tastes, Caribbean dance show and stopping shocked by a raw and unscripted genuine story unfolding earlier me.

I tried again and again and actually read this five maybe fifty-fifty half dozen times in social club to find means to relate to this ve

To be honest I felt similar an envious outsider/tourist almost voyeuristically looking in a 'locals' window for the real/authentic experience I was always hoping to detect. It was akin to walking over to the pavilion for the nightly, completely-choreographed-for-plain-vanilla-tastes, Caribbean area dance testify and stopping shocked by a raw and unscripted 18-carat story unfolding earlier me.

I tried once again and again and actually read this five peradventure even six times in order to detect ways to relate to this very sensuous account. To this day, I all the same experience like a lurker when I remember how this made me feel. But it did souvenir me with the inkling of a perception that I have now that other people's lives are much more than sensuous. This sensation was paid for past my sense of intrusion as someone else'southward place, "In Another Place, Not Here," was not my place to detect my sense of home.

Information technology was like visiting a tourist location where I am in the minority and I practice not hear my natural language spoken, yet I am given a chair to sit on to watch a peep show. And I finally interpret what the locals are saying to me, "See this? This is something you can never have. But at present that you accept seen it, yous will e'er want it."

The tourist never gets the existent matter. - lol - and maybe that'due south the betoken?

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Jun 21, 2020 Kathleen rated it it was amazing

Wow! This is and so beautifully written and so politically inspiring. Dear and struggle.

Nov 26, 2020 Rose rated it liked it

Definitely was not smart enough for this book.

The callbacks and jumping back and forrad in time made more sense as the book progressed, merely it was an uphill boxing at the beginning. I remember maybe this is one of those books you have to read twice. The prose is lyrical and forced me to slow downward—I'chiliad a skimmer, unfortunately—and for that I liked information technology. The three women the book centres around are so rich and have and then much depth that information technology makes me desire to chew on them for ever. Overall, a adept time, simply

Definitely was not smart enough for this book.

The callbacks and jumping dorsum and forwards in time fabricated more sense equally the book progressed, simply it was an uphill battle at the beginning. I call up peradventure this is one of those books you lot take to read twice. The prose is lyrical and forced me to slow downwards—I'm a skimmer, unfortunately—and for that I liked it. The three women the book centres around are so rich and have so much depth that it makes me desire to chew on them for always. Overall, a adept time, but only if you accept time to think about information technology for a while.

3 endings that kind of make sense out of 5

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Apr 05, 2007 Jess rated it really liked it

Recommends it for: anyone who enjoys good writing

Reality, reality and the dreaming of each other's reality and fantasy, a story of two Caribbean women who find refuge in each other in the midst of the turmoil around them. Yep, the stuff of life, just Brand beautifully crafts this story with hints of Fauulkner and Woolf. Reality, reality and the dreaming of each other's reality and fantasy, a story of two Caribbean women who find refuge in each other in the midst of the turmoil around them. Yes, the stuff of life, merely Brand beautifully crafts this story with hints of Fauulkner and Woolf. ...more

Apr fourteen, 2011 Laura rated information technology it was amazing

Heartbreaking, raw. Brand is a poet and this book is similar an extended poem. She writes about same-sex love and revolution, imperialism, slavery, diasporic West Indians. Information technology's and so rich. Heartbreaking, raw. Brand is a poet and this book is like an extended poem. She writes nearly same-sex love and revolution, imperialism, slavery, diasporic Westward Indians. Information technology'due south and so rich. ...more

More poetry than a novel, information technology was hard to stay focused on the story - definitely a book you should take your time with if you take the opportunity to exercise so, which I did not!

Dec 04, 2017 Diane rated information technology it was amazing

I am left stunned with the ending of this book. Brand'southward ability to arts and crafts the story with the perfect words allowed me to enter more than securely into the story. Tragic and uplifting. Verlia truly, finally went to some other identify, and it was not here. The terminal book for course and I am left stunned. I am left stunned with the ending of this book. Brand's ability to craft the story with the perfect words immune me to enter more securely into the story. Tragic and uplifting. Verlia truly, finally went to another place, and information technology was not here. The final book for class and I am left stunned. ...more

2.5/5 - the best lesson from this volume is that the revolution must wait until information technology is the will of the people (thx Abena). I found the setting hard to follow in that sometimes I didn't know which character was talking or what was happening. I call back this is due to my ignorance of the dialect used. 2.5/5 - the best lesson from this book is that the revolution must wait until information technology is the volition of the people (thx Abena). I constitute the setting hard to follow in that sometimes I didn't know which character was talking or what was happening. I remember this is due to my ignorance of the dialect used. ...more

This book is a huge disappointment! I wanted to love it. It had such promise. The language is often beautiful. Dionne Brand has nifty talent with words. However, in that location is so much overwriting - pages and pages of beautiful prose for the sake of cute prose that do not propel the story forward. Pages and pages of lists and descriptions and repeated words and no plot - almost like an extremely long poem. For example: "...how she heard a sound waiting for her at the end of sound, how the nights This book is a huge thwarting! I wanted to love it. It had such promise. The language is often beautiful. Dionne Brand has great talent with words. Nevertheless, there is so much overwriting - pages and pages of beautiful prose for the sake of cute prose that practise not propel the story frontwards. Pages and pages of lists and descriptions and repeated words and no plot - virtually similar an extremely long poem. For example: "...how she heard a sound waiting for her at the end of sound, how the nights in that location were so quiet, then tranquility she heard a audio waiting for her at the end..." all this to tell usa it was quiet. There is a name Adela and a name Abena - this gets confusing. The first half of the book is told past Elizete and the 2d half by Verlia, her lover, simply their voices sound the aforementioned, other than Elizete uses patois (highly annoying to read pages and pages and pages of stream of consciousness patois going nowhere.) Some of the descriptions do non work for me - a crowd of people at a rally are like sugar?

The setting in the Caribbean was never properly defined. Because I know the history, I know it ends in Grenada at the time of the 1983 US invasion. Those events are alluded to. But I am sure many would non know this without more data being provided. Elizete'due south patois sound distinctly Trinidadian and not Grenadian, and Trinidadian and Grenadian place names are jammed together. If she is trying to create a mythical, universal island, it doesn't work for me. Neil Bissoondath's creation of Casaquemada in "A Casual Brutality" was far more than constructive.

The Grenadian Revolution, or "revo," is a fantastic topic for a novel. I'm writing a novel nigh it and that's why I read this i. Merely although the revo plays a central role in the story, it is treated almost equally an reconsideration, vague where it should be specific. We don't know why Verlia is there or what her connection is to the revo, and inexplicably at this point the novel shifts to journal entries past Verlia. And so many opportunities are missed to tell this of import story.

While the bare bones of the plot are intriguing - a lesbian relationship in the rural Caribbean in past times, which would have been severely frowned upon - they are never fleshed out or connected together, with the result that despite its gorgeous prose, the book was so boring it was a existent struggle to even finish it, and I did non care at all about the characters or what happened to them.

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May 19, 2017 spoon rated information technology it was astonishing

i can read this book for the rest of my life and be deeply, utterly satisfied.

Difficult, angry, cute.

It's a beautifully written book, with prose that clearly shows her history as a poet. Information technology's a beautifully written book, with prose that clearly shows her history equally a poet. ...more than

Jan fifteen, 2021 Ignatz rated it actually liked it

Fantastic. Very much a poet's novel. Then much exciting and fruitful working through gay stuff, the Grenadian revolution, I'm surprised I don't hear this talked well-nigh more. Already looking forward to re-reading it. Fantastic. Very much a poet's novel. And so much exciting and fruitful working through gay stuff, the Grenadian revolution, I'g surprised I don't hear this talked nearly more. Already looking forward to re-reading it. ...more than

Book 4 of Reading a Rush July 2020: read the outset book you touch

In that location are ii worlds here in this city where she arrives years earlier with a shoe box of clippings. Ane so opaque that she ignores it equally much equally she can - this one is white and runs things; information technology is as glassy as its downtown buildings and equally secretive; its conversations are not understandable, its motions something to keep an center on, something to look for threat in. The other world growing steadily at its borders is the one she knows and lives in. If yous live here you tin never say that you know t

There are two worlds here in this city where she arrives years earlier with a shoe box of clippings. One and so opaque that she ignores it every bit much as she tin - this one is white and runs things; information technology is as burnished as its downtown buildings and as secretive; its conversations are not understandable, its motions something to proceed an center on, something to wait for threat in. The other world growing steadily at its borders is the i she knows and lives in. If you live here y'all can never say that you know the other world, the white globe, with certainty. Information technology is e'er changing on you lot though it stays the same, immovable, so when she helps children to read without an accent she teaches them past reading pamphlets on what to practise when arrested. This warp is what the new world abound on.

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The first chapter of In Some other Place, Not Here actually blew me abroad, and and then I put it downward to enjoy that feel. But I call up that putting the volume downward was a mistake - I don't recall information technology's the kind of book that benefits from putting time away to consider things. And when I say then, I don't hateful that information technology's better if you don't think about the book and what information technology'due south doing, or anything like that. I don't mean it's secretly a dumb book, or something! I mean, rather, that because of the (traditional? standard?) postmodernist techniques that Make uses, and because, also, of the novel'southward poetic origins (you can actually tell that Make is a poet) it is probably the kind of book that works best if y'all let it sweep you lot away. But I read it over . . . three weeks? And information technology'southward just disjointed plenty for that arroyo to impairment it, to make yous lose the rhythms of the novel. Or, anyway, to make me lose them - y'all are probably much smarter and cannier than I am, and won't brand the aforementioned fault.

I'll accept to reread this book in the near futurity. I recall I will better appreciate information technology then. And I remember it is the kind of volume that ought to be reread, anyway. There is plenty richness in information technology, in the language, that really wallowing in that aspect would exist great.

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Some parts of this are, by 2015, kind of predictable. Well-nigh of Elizete'southward fourth dimension in Toronto is . . . familiar, shall we say, from other novels. Enough to exist a permit-downward afterwards the "oh my god" opening affiliate. Verlia'south fourth dimension in the Movement gets at some really interesting stuff, but Brand has a really unflattering look at the Move, and Verlia isn't quite well-fatigued plenty for her emotional lacunae to make sense.

I like the contrast between the spareness of the book's structure and plot, and the lushness of the words a swell deal. I wish the characters had felt more similar people and less like symbols, but I may reconsider that position when I come back to the novel. I should say that anybody gets at least flashes of really hit, really powerful emotional depth and insight and so it'south probably worth it fifty-fifty just for those.

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"In the center of everything Elizete asks me why I'm with her. Why I'm with her! This is likewise much at present. I don't want to be responsible like that for anyone. I can't stand the feeling of being fastened. I'yard trying to cease CLR."

This is a love story for sure. Verlia and Elizete are lovers merely Elizete "never wanted nothing big from the world" and Verlia has never been able to accept the world as it is. They are both Caribbean women. Elizete, abandoned every bit a child, ends up working in the pikestaff fields;

"In the middle of everything Elizete asks me why I'm with her. Why I'm with her! This is too much at present. I don't want to be responsible like that for anyone. I can't stand the feeling of being attached. I'm trying to finish CLR."

This is a dearest story for sure. Verlia and Elizete are lovers just Elizete "never wanted nothing big from the world" and Verlia has never been able to accept the world as it is. They are both Caribbean area women. Elizete, abandoned as a child, ends up working in the cane fields; Verlia, forever restless, leaves her family at seventeen in search of The Movement. Under the guise of pursuing an education to ameliorate herself, she goes to Canada and becomes involved in various African liberation movements of the 70s. Dionne Brand makes this every bit real as possible for the reader, taking lines direct from the work of Nikki Giovanni, Frantz Fanon, The Concluding Poets. When Verlia is arrested and detained for her work, she uses Che Guevara as a mantra "At the risk of seeming ridiculous, allow me say that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of dearest." Information technology'south a line Verlia says she wants to live in. The revolution is the thing keeping her live and once she and Elizete see, she is thing that breathes a new free energy into Elizete.

The novel covers so many ideas: immigration, colonialism, imperialism,... all from the perspectives of ii black women who dearest each other. At that place are so many ways to approach this book for these ideas, for its history, for its verse.

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Im glad I made information technology to the end.

At that place were parts of the book that were difficult to read because of the writer's writing style (ie: prose; streams of conciseness in creole; jarring change of setting/tense... etc.). The second one-half was much easier to navigate than the first and it clarified a lot of the confusion we encounter in the starting time half of the novel.
I similar the field of study matter (immigration, blackness, organizing a social motion, honey, queer identities, abuse, relationships), but the writer'southward style was a

Im glad I made it to the finish.

There were parts of the book that were difficult to read considering of the author'south writing style (ie: prose; streams of conciseness in creole; jarring change of setting/tense... etc.). The 2nd one-half was much easier to navigate than the beginning and it clarified a lot of the defoliation we meet in the first half of the novel.
I like the subject affair (clearing, blackness, organizing a social move, love, queer identities, abuse, relationships), but the writer'due south mode was a major draw back for the novel.
I give this book two starts because it was just OK. Non my favorite read despite my interest in what Brand had to say.

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Jun fifteen, 2009 Juliet Wilson rated it it was amazing

After the hard first chapter, i institute myself loving this book. Information technology is an atmospheric story of oppression and revolution, dear and loss. The descriptions are cute and the characters internal lives are laid bare. The problem is that all this beautiful language and internal explorations means that the narrative is sometimes difficult to follow, actually sometimes in that location doesn't seem to exist whatever narrative at all. I did find myself geographically and chronologically confused on more than one occasio After the hard offset chapter, i found myself loving this book. It is an atmospheric story of oppression and revolution, love and loss. The descriptions are beautiful and the characters internal lives are laid bare. The problem is that all this beautiful language and internal explorations means that the narrative is sometimes hard to follow, really sometimes there doesn't seem to be whatsoever narrative at all. I did find myself geographically and chronologically dislocated on more than one occasion. But it is so cute (autonomously from the hard first chapter). ...more than

I plant this book difficult to read, the linguistic communication in the starting time one-half is very often a bit of a barrier as information technology is mostly a Carribean dialect or patois. Much of the book approaches stream of consciousness and I plant it a struggle to keep up with the characters. That said I did become a strong sense of emotion coming from both the female protagonists, their sense of striving for a better life and discontent with their current situation, their suffering and heartache.

January 04, 2011 Stephen Bess rated it really liked it

I loved the rich Caribbean area language in this book. Honestly, I need to read it again, just I feel it was an enjoyable read.

The poetic style of the novel makes it a compelling read. Even so in the centre, even the magnificent verse seems inadequate to recoup for a lack of proper story-telling.

Every bit a immature girl growing up in Trinidad, Dionne Brand submitted poems to the newspapers under the pseudonym Xavier Simone, an homage to Nina Simone, whom she would listen to late at night on the radio. Brand moved to Canada when she was 17 to attend the Academy of Toronto, where she earned a degree in Philosophy and English, a Masters in the Philosophy of Education and pursued PhD studies in Wom Equally a young daughter growing up in Trinidad, Dionne Brand submitted poems to the newspapers under the pseudonym Xavier Simone, an homage to Nina Simone, whom she would heed to tardily at night on the radio. Brand moved to Canada when she was 17 to attend the University of Toronto, where she earned a caste in Philosophy and English, a Masters in the Philosophy of Education and pursued PhD studies in Women'southward History but left the program to make time for creative writing.

Dionne Brand offset came to prominence in Canada equally a poet. Her books of poesy include No Language Is Neutral, a finalist for the Governor General'due south Award, and Land to Low-cal On, winner of the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Honour and thirsty, finalist for the Griffin Prize and winner of the Pat Lowther Honor for poetry. Make is also the writer of the acclaimed novels In Another Place, Not Here, which was shortlisted for the Chapters/Books in Canada Showtime Novel Award and the Trillium Award, and At the Full and Change of the Moon. Her works of non-fiction include Bread Out of Rock and A Map to the Door of No Render.

What We All Long For was published to great critical acclamation in 2005. While writing the novel, Brand would find herself gazing out the window of a restaurant in the very Toronto neighbourhood occupied by her characters. "I'd exist looking through the window and I'd think this is like the frame of the book, the frame of reality: 'There they are: a young Asian adult female passing past with a immature black adult female passing past, with a young Italian man passing by," she says in an interview with The Toronto Star. A recent Vanity Fair article quotes her every bit saying "I've 'read' New York and London and Paris. And I idea this metropolis needs to be written like that, besides."

In addition to her literary accomplishments, Brand is Professor of English in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.

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