I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter by Chariandy, David

I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter

Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble. --Nafkote TamiratFor readers of Between the World and Me...
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Author: David Chariandy
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I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter by Chariandy, David

I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter

$52.85

I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter

$52.85
Author: David Chariandy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble. --Nafkote Tamirat

For readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All Be Feminists, an intimate and profound meditation on the politics of race today, from prizewinning novelist David Chariandy.

I can glimpse, through the lens of my own experience, how a parent or grandparent, encouraged to remain silent and feel ashamed of themselves, may nevertheless find the strength to voice directly to a child a truer story of ancestry.

When a moment of quietly ignored bigotry prompted his three-year-old daughter to ask, What happened? David Chariandy began wondering how to discuss with his children the politics of race. A decade later, in a newly heated era of both struggle and divisions, he writes a letter to his now thirteen-year-old daughter.

The son of Black and South Asian migrants from Trinidad, David draws upon his personal and ancestral past, including the legacies of slavery, indenture, and immigration, as well as the experience of growing up as a visible minority in the land of his birth. In sharing with his daughter his own story, he hopes to help cultivate within her a sense of identity and responsibility that balances the painful truths of the past and present with hopeful possibilities for a better future.

Author: David Chariandy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 03/05/2019
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781635572872


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2019
Library Journal 01/01/0001 pg. 80
Publishers Weekly 03/04/2019

About the Author
David Chariandy grew up in Toronto and lives and teaches in Vancouver. He is the author of the novels Soucouyant, which received nominations from eleven literary awards juries, and Brother, winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Toronto Book Award.

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