African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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326 p, A novel that deals with the experiences of several black seamen from the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States who are together on a beach in Marseilles. "The main character, Lincoln "Banjo" Agrippa, meets Ray, an intellectual from Haiti, and the pair illustrates the contrast between the rigidity and mechanism of industrial America and the vitality and naturalness of rural life in the islands." --Schavi Mali Ali, "Claude McKay," Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 51.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
A lyrical and evocative dreamscape of the Caribbean. Lively pictures & spare, poetic text are used to illustrate the actions of four island children & evoke the mood of the Caribbean. Where does sea meet sky? Where does sound meet color? Where does song meet soul? They meet where children run, splash, sing, and live, on an island in the West Indies. Rachel Isadora has written an inventive text, just right for the very young, featuring the activities children love. Winsome watercolors depict the connections that exist in the world around us, and take us to the places that lie deep in the hearts of all children, no matter where they live.
