More
Winner of the 2009 Toronto Book Award
At the news of her son’s involvement in gang crime, Idora Morrison collapses in her rented basement apartment. For four days and nights, she retreats into a vortex of memory, pain, and disappointment that unravels a riveting dissection of her life as a black immigrant to Toronto. Idora has lived in Canada for twenty-five years. She has struggled to make ends meet and her deadbeat husband Bertram has abandoned her for a better life in America. Left alone to raise her son BJ, Idora does her best to survive against very difficult odds. Now that BJ has disappeared into a life of crime and gang warfare, she recoils from this loss and tries to understand how her life has spiraled into this tragic place. In spite of her circumstances, Idora finds her way back into the light with a courage that is both remarkable and unforgettable. More is a powerful indictment of the iniquities of racial discrimination and the crime of poverty.
Copyright © Austin Clarke 2015
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Clarke, Austin, 1934-, author
‘Membering / Austin Clarke.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-4597-3034-2 (paperback).--ISBN 978-1-4597-3035-9 (pdf).--
ISBN 978-1-4597-3036-6 (epub)
1. Clarke, Austin, 1934-. 2. Clarke, Austin, 1934- --Childhood and
youth. 3. Authors, Canadian (English)--20th century--Biography.
4. Authors, Barbadian--20th century--Biography. 5. Barbados--Social life
and customs. I. Title.
PS8505.L38Z49 2015 C813’.54 C2015-904684-X
C2015-904685-8
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