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Barcode30053003770461
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoF CHAN
Title Village weavers : a novel / Myriam J.A. Chancy.
Author Chancy, Myriam J. A., 1970- author.
CollectionAdult Fiction
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StatusHome LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc Status
 Paris-Bourbon30053003770461F CHAN4/2/2024 Available

Catalog Details

Personal Name Chancy, Myriam J. A., 1970- author.
Title Statement Village weavers : a novel / Myriam J.A. Chancy.
Edition Statement First US edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2024.
Physical Description 333 pages ; 23 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "From award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy comes an extraordinary and enduring story of two families forever joined by country-and by long-held secrets-and two girls with a bond that refuses to be broken. In 1940s' Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young girls, they build their unlikely friendship-until a deathbed revelation ripples through their families and tears them apart. After Franðcois Duvalier's rule turns deadly in the 1950s, Sisi moves to Paris, while Gertie marries into a wealthy Dominican family. Across decades and continents, through personal successes and failures, they are parted and reunited, slowly learning the truth of their singular relationship. Finally, six decades later, with both women in the United States, a sudden phone call brings them back together once more to reckon with and forgive the past. Told with power and frankness, Village Weavers confronts the silences around class, race, and nationality; charts the moments when lives are irrevocably forced apart; and envisions two girls-connected their entire lives-who try to break inherited cycles of mistrust and find ways back into each other's hearts"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Female friendship Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Family secrets Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Social classes Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels. lcgft

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