Description
Fiction. African American Studies. These stories of triumph and despair present a gallery of characters, Caribbean immigrants struggling against the odds, as they make their way through the maze of urban life. Set in Montreal, LIVES breaks the stereotypes to give us a side of Canada rarely acknowledged. Mary Fellows is a sex-worker organizing a demonstration on St Catherine Street; Margaret is on a perpetual quest for a suitable man, her latest folly a suave, much younger man she brought over from Jamaica; Greta, a domestic help, proudly holds up her son's high school diploma; but can he read it? Lives adds to Thomas's already considerable reputation as a chronicler of black life in Montreal.
Author Bio
H Nigel Thomas was born in St Vincent. He attended university in Montreal and for ten years was a teacher with the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, before joining the faculty at Laval University, Quebec, from where he recently retired. His published works include the novels BEHIND THE FACE OF WINTER (Mawenzi House/TSAR Publishers, 2002) and RETURN TO ARCADIA (Mawenzi House/TSAR Publishers, 2007), and the short-story collections, LIVES, WHOLE AND OTHERWISE (Mawenzi House/TSAR Publishers, 2010) and WHEN THE BOTTOM FALLS OUT (Mawenzi House/TSAR Publishers, 2014). He received the Homage to Artists award from Laval University in 2013.
Author City: Montreal, QC CAN