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Big island, small / Maureen St. Clair.

by St. Clair, Maureen.

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Roseway Publishing, an Imprint of Fernwood Publishing, c2018.

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Women -- Fiction.

Coming of age -- Fiction.

9781773630038 (trade pbk.)

1773630032 (trade pbk.)

217 p. ; 22 cm.

Issued also in electronic formats.

"Sola is confused by Judith the first time she sees her, a fair skin woman with dreads dancing to reggae music. And Judith interprets the gaze of Sola similar to those who judge Judith for what they see as appropriating Black people's ways. A few days later up against an interlocking fence, bordering music of their homeland Judith kisses Sola. The kiss is interrupted by stones, anti-racial and gay slurs and thus begins the complicated friendship between Judith and Sola. Big Island, Small is a hard edge coming of age story about two Caribbean/Canadian women both from similar yet vastly different backgrounds. Both dealing with the challenges of living in between two worlds, the world of their birth, Caribbean (Small Island) and the world where they met and presently live, North America (Big Island). In order to make amends with their violent pasts, to release shame, find joy and intimately reconnect with themselves and each other, Judith and Sola must dismantle their assumptions and biases around race, class, gender and sexuality."--Publisher.

Canadian fiction.

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