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Title Statement | Goddie / Robert Picart. |
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Author | Picart, Robert |
Publication | Potomac, MD: New Degree Press,2022. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 266 pages |
ISBN | 9781637304310 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr07298862 |
General Notes | "A biographical novel"--Cover. Includes Jamaican glossary words and phrases. |
Summary | In Robert Picart's debut novel Goddie, we read the story of a young girl born in the mid-1900s in the picturesque Blue Mountains of Jamaica. To tourists, it's a paradise of crystal blue waters, coffee, and rum. For residents, poverty, second-class citizenship, and violence are reminders of daily hardship. It's here that we meet sixteen-year-old Goddie. With the sudden loss of both parents, Goddie finds herself indentured to strangers to pay for school. Heartbroken, weary and alone, our heroine forms a plan to escape to Great Britain as the Windrush movement escalates. Once in the U.K., will Goddie escape the depths of betrayal for good and start over again? Will Goddie succumb to despair? Author Robert Picart's Goddie, tells a gripping story of betrayal, the strength to overcome, and the glory of starting life over from the middle. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Immigrants--Fiction |
Indentured servants--Fiction | |
Nurses--Fiction | |
Orphans--Fiction | |
Resilience (Personality trait)--Fiction | |
Jamaican Canadians--Fiction | |
By Location | Canada--Fiction |
Great Britain--Fiction | |
Jamaica--Fiction | |
By Genre | Biographical fiction |
Historical fiction | |
Novels |