| International Standard Book Number |
9781959030522 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781959030379 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
195903037X hardcover
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6 23/eng/20231002
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| Personal Name |
Chancy, Myriam J. A., 1970- author.
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| Title Statement |
Village weavers : a novel / Myriam J. A. Chancy.
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| Edition Statement |
First US edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Ã2024
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2024.
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| Physical Description |
333 pages ; 23 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Summary, Etc. |
"From award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy comes an extraordinary and enduring story of two families forever joined by country-and by long-held secrets-and two girls with a bond that refuses to be broken. In 1940s' Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young girls, they build their unlikely friendship-until a deathbed revelation ripples through their families and tears them apart. After Franðcois Duvalier's rule turns deadly in the 1950s, Sisi moves to Paris, while Gertie marries into a wealthy Dominican family. Across decades and continents, through personal successes and failures, they are parted and reunited, slowly learning the truth of their singular relationship. Finally, six decades later, with both women in the United States, a sudden phone call brings them back together once more to reckon with and forgive the past. Told with power and frankness, Village Weavers confronts the silences around class, race, and nationality; charts the moments when lives are irrevocably forced apart; and envisions two girls-connected their entire lives-who try to break inherited cycles of mistrust and find ways back into each other's hearts"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Social classes Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Female friendship Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Family secrets Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Secrets de famille Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Classes sociales Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Amitiâe fâeminine Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Haiti Fiction. History 1934-1986
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Haiti Fiction. Social conditions
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Haèiti Romans, nouvelles, etc. Conditions sociales
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Haèiti Romans, nouvelles, etc. Histoire 1934-1986
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
FICTION / World Literature / Caribbean & West Indies. bisacsh
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Romans. rvmgf
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