Big Island, Small
by Maureen St. Clair
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Pub Date Apr 16 2018 | Archive Date Nov 23 2018
Fernwood Publishing | Roseway Publishing
Description
Sola is confused the first time she sees Judith, a fair skinned woman with dreadlocks dancing to reggae music. Meeting her gaze, Judith thinks Sola is judging her for appropriating Black culture. A few days later, up against an interlocking fence, Judith kisses Sola. Onlookers hurl stones and racial and gay slurs. Thus begins the complicated friendship between Judith and Sola who live in between the land they were born, the Caribbean, and the land where they presently live, North America.
Winner of the 2016 Beacon Award for Social Justice Literature and the 2015 Atlantic Writer’s Competition, Big Island, Small is a story of intimacy and friendship between two Caribbean/Canadian women with similar, yet vastly different, backgrounds who must dismantle their assumptions and biases around race, class, gender and sexuality in order to make amends with violent pasts, release shame, find joy and reconnect with themselves and each other.
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- National ARC campaign
- Author readings in Atlantic Canada
- Ads in literary publications
- Co-op advertising in indie bookstores
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781773630038 |
| PRICE | $21.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 226 |
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Featured Reviews
Katherine A, Book Trade Professional
This book was great! While I've done some reading from various Caribbean islands, this book was unique in its portrayal of the two main characters' homeland in comparison to the mainland. While Judith never wanted to leave the island, Sola wanted nothing more by the time she was out. When the two meet, they're surprised to discover how their lives intersect and reluctant to admit their feelings toward each other. But their romance is hardly that, and instead this book explores the prejudices of two women from different backgrounds who grew up near each other and then moved, for similar reasons, to a place that would let them recreate themselves - if they could only figure out how. In their similarities and differences in outlook, the tumultuous budding friendship between the two exposes their past pain and the walls they've created to save themselves.
