We've Been Here Before
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Myrtle Henry Sodhi- A debut novel exploring intergenerational Black female experience, with a lineage of women stretching from 1800s Dominica to present day Canada
- Following emancipation in 1800s Dominica, explores a series of work-related migrations where women to leave families behind to work for affluent families, breaking the mother-child bond
- For readers of Yaa Gyasi (Homegoing), Celeste Ng (Everything I Never Told You), Zalika Reid-Benta (Frying Plantain), Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao), Edwidge Danticat (Breath, Eyes, Memory), and Charmaine Wilkerson (Black Cake)
- Themes: storytelling, liberation through voice reclamation, migration, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, and mothering
- Author is a visual artist, former teacher, and academic, whose work focuses on harnessing forms of expression as a means of personal and community liberation and integration
- Author is descended from a lineage of storytellers and the story is loosely based on her own female forebears
Publication
2026
Pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Dundurn Press
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