At ten, Melody Sparks, better known as Baby Girl, is excited to move to the tropical island of Trinidad with her single-parent dad, but she silently longs for her mother, a woman she can’t recall ever meeting and doesn’t have a photo of...
Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad
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Both familiar and strange, this story of a large Canadian city seen through the wide eyes of a naive and inexperienced young immigrant - wise in the culture of comic books - is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Samuel is just 17 when...
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Jonathan Lewis-Adey was nine when his parents, who were raising him in Toronto, separated and his mother, Sid, vanished from his life. It was not until he was a grown man that Jonathan finally reconnected with his beloved parent, only...