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Dream country, Shannon Gibney

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Dream country

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Shannon Gibney

"Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people from one African American family chasing an elusive dream across centuries and continents. Gibney conjures an ambitious, sinuous novel from a family tree twisted to its breaking point by slavery and colonialism but ultimately held together by hope and determination. 2008. Kollie cracks under the strain of life as a teenage Liberian refugee in Minneapolis. Exhausted by being at once too African but not black enough for his peers and worn down by family, he is an exile even from his own dreams. 1926. Togar flees deep into the Liberian bush, desperate to escape a militia determined to force him to work the plantations of the descendants of the African American slaves who colonized Liberia a century earlier. 1827. Yasmine Wright and her children run from a Virginia plantation, bound for a new colony in the so-called homeland they've never seen. In Liberia, they find a place where people who once feared the end of a whip will soon learn to grab its handle. 1980. Ujay and Evelyn dare to believe their love can survive Liberia's fast approaching revolution, the moment where their young nation will either awaken to a liberated dawn or fall back into another authoritarian nightmare. 2018. In Minneapolis, one determined young dreamer makes an audacious bid to weave her family's tangled history into a new story and stake a claim to her future."--, Provided by publisher

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