Me Dying Trial

With a New Introduction by Edwidge Danticat Me Dying Trial, Patricia Powell's masterful debut novel, establishes her as a major voice in Caribbean literature. Gwennie Augusta Glaspole, a schoolteacher, is trapped in an unhappy marriage and quickly saddled with six children. Gwennie resists Jamaican cultural expectations of playing dutiful wife and mother, struggling in a loveless, often abusive relationship, she eventually relocates to Connecticut. Dealing with issues of religion, sexuality, immigration, domestic violence, and gender inequality, Powell has proven to be 'a Generation-X vanguard for the Caribbean literary world' ( Boston Magazine ), and much more.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Powell
• Publisher: BEACON PRESS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780807019726
• ISBN: 978-0-8070-1972-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Celebrating Black Women Writers; Celebrating Black Women Writers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work