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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Downing, Antonio Michael, 1975-     Subjects     Downing, Antonio Michael, 1975- -- Childhood and youth.     Downing, Antonio Michael, 1975-     Black Canadians -- Biography.     Authors, Canadian -- Biography.     Authors, Black -- Biography.     Musicians, Black -- Canada -- Biography.     Musicians -- Canada -- Biography.     Musicians -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Downing, Antonio Michael, 1975-       by title:      Saga boy : my life o...       by call number:      781.64092 D751s     Search the Web     Downing, Antonio Michael, 1975-     Downing, Antonio Michael, 1975- -- Childhood and youth.     Downing, Antonio Michael, 1975-     Black Canadians -- Biography.     Authors, Canadian -- Biography.     Authors, Black -- Biography.     Musicians, Black -- Canada -- Biography.     Musicians -- Canada -- Biography.     Musicians -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Biography.       MARC Display

Saga boy : my life of blackness and becoming / Antonio Michael Downing. by Downing, Antonio Michael, 1975- Viking, 2021. Call #: 781.64092 D751s Subjects Downing, Antonio Michael, 1975- -- Childhood and youth.   Downing, Antonio Michael, 1975-   Black Canadians -- Biography.   Authors, Canadian -- Biography.   Authors, Black -- Biography.   Musicians, Black -- Canada -- Biography.   Musicians -- Canada -- Biography.   Musicians -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Biography. ISBN:  9780735237308 (trade pbk) Description:  325 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Summary:  "An enthralling, deeply personal examination of the search for a home and the long-lasting effects of immigrant cultural dislocation. Antonio Michael Downing's memoir of creativity and transformation is a startling mash-up of memories and mythology, told in gripping, lyrical prose. Raised by his indomitable grandmother in a hot, verdant Trinidad, Downing at age 11 is uprooted to Canada when she dies. But not urban Toronto: he and his older brother are sent to live with his stern evangelical Aunt Joan, in Waubigoon, a mostly Indigenous community in northern Ontario where they are the only black children in the town. In this wilderness, he begins his journey as an immigrant minority, using music and performance to dramatically transform himself. At the heart of his odyssey is the search for a home. He briefly reunites with the feckless biological parents who abandoned him -- Al, a womanizing con man and drug addict, and Gloria, twice abandoned by Al, who seems to regard her sons as cash machines. Downing finds surrogate families, whose love he can't fully accept, and later, enters a string of romantic relationships that fail. His saga takes him to New York to Toronto and to Manchester, where he will begin his European musical tour with Liam Gallagher of Oasis. He and his artistic collaborator Gada Jane create the gold-chain laden, sequin and leather clad rock star 'John Orpheus.' While abroad, Downing receives word that a fire has destroyed most of his belongings. He feels liberated, free to create his new self, one that has accepted and risen above the family dyfunction and trauma of his early years. Richly evocative, Becoming John Orpheus is a heart-wrenching but uplifting story of a lonely immigrant boy who overcomes adversity and abandonment to reclaim his black identity and embrace a rich heritage."--Publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Dartmouth North Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 781.64092 D751s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 781.64092 D751s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 781.64092 D751s Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 781.64092 D751s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 781.64092 D751s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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