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Arrival of the Snake-Woman: And Other Stories

 Author: Olive Senior  Category: High School and (Young) Adult, Historical Fiction, Middle School, Short Stories and Essays, Slavery, Small-Town Living and the Countryside, Social Class Differences  Country: Jamaica, Caribbean  Language: English  Reading Age: High School and (Young) Adult, Middle School More Details  Amazon  Bookshop org
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The Toronto author’s Jamaican birthplace provides the setting for these powerful and poignant stories that span a period of roughly 150 years, from the closing days of slavery in 1838 to the 1980s.

The tensions wrought by rapid change and conflicting loyalties are at the heart of these stories, most beautifully evoked in the novella “Arrival of the Snake-Woman”. Here a young boy narrates the seminal event of his childhood in the late nineteenth century: the coming of a lonely Indian indentured woman into a mountain village.

Senior’s stories are leavened with wit and humour and the intricate play with language and her characters emerge as triumphant examples of the human spirit unravelling the complex weave of race, class, and cultural and ethnic identity.

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