At the Full and Change of the Moon: A Novel

by Brand, Dionne

• ISBN13: 9780802116499
• ISBN10: 0802116493
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Pgw

Summary

Written with lyrical fire in a chorus of vividly rendered voices, Dionne Brand's second novel is an epic of the African diaspora across the globe. It begins in 1824 on Trinidad, where Marie-Ursule, queen of a secret slave society called the Sans Peur Regiment, plots a mass suicide. The end of the Sans Puer is also the beginning of a new world, for Marie-Ursule cannot kill her young daughter, Bola -- who escapes to live free and bear a dynasty of descendants who spill out across the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. Haunted by a legacy of passion and oppression, the children of Bola pass through two world wars and into the confusion, estrangement, and violence of the late twentieth century.

Table of Contents

. . . But a Drink of Water	1	(48)
At the Full and Change of the Moon	49	(24)
Tamarindus Indica	73	(26)
A Sudden and Big Lust	99	(30)
Priest	129	(46)
A Soft Man	175	(32)
In a Window	207	(20)
Blue Airmail Letter	227	(32)
Bola	259	(34)
At the Full and Change of the Moon	293	(8)
Acknowledgments	301