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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Thomas, Kai.     Subjects     Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Blacks -- Ontario, Southern -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     First Nations -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Underground Railroad -- Fiction.     Ontario, Southwestern -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Ontario, Southwestern -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Thomas, Kai.       by title:      In the Upper Country...       by call number:      FICTION THO     Search the Web     Thomas, Kai.     Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Blacks -- Ontario, Southern -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     First Nations -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Underground Railroad -- Fiction.     Ontario, Southwestern -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Ontario, Southwestern -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.       MARC Display

In the Upper Country / Kai Thomas. by Thomas, Kai. Viking Canada, 2023. Call #: FICTION THO Subjects Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.   Blacks -- Ontario, Southern -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.   First Nations -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.   Underground Railroad -- Fiction.   Ontario, Southwestern -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.   Ontario, Southwestern -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.   Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.   Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780735243460 (Cdn hc) 9780593489505 (US hc) Description:  334 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Summary:  "Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist and activist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by veterans of the War of 1812 and refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south -- whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border. One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot dead on his land by an old woman recently arrived via the Underground Railroad. When the old woman, whose name is Cash, refuses to flee before the authorities arrive, the farmer urges Lensinda to gather testimony from her before Cash is condemned. But Cash doesn't want to confess -- instead she proposes a barter: A story for a story. And so begins an extraordinary exchange of life stories that reveal the interwoven history of Canada and the United States; of Indigenous peoples from a wide swath of what is called North America and the Black men and women brought here into slavery and their free descendents on both sides of the border. As Cash's time runs out, Lensinda realizes she knows far less than she believed not only about the complicated tapestry of her people's ancestry, but also of her own family history. And it seems that Cash may carry a secret that could shape Lensinda's destiny. Moving from Virginia to Kentucky, from Montreal to Indigenous communities on the shores of the Great Lakes and Black communties in southern Ontario and a fictionalized version of Owen Sound, these two women's life stories weave together love, tragedy, and survival, to map their own unexpected interconnections onto the history of North America in an entirely new and resonant way."--Publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Canadian fiction. Black fiction. Literary fiction. First novel. Holds:  5   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Bedford Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION THO Adult books Checked out Jul 17, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Woodlawn Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION THO Adult books Transit Request   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION THO Adult books Checked out Aug 17, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Sheet Harbour Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION THO Adult books Checked out Jul 17, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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