Título: The Girl with the Hazel Eyes
Série: -
Autor: Callie Browning
Data de Leitura: 10/05/2024 ⮞ 19/05/2024
Classificação: ⭐⭐⭐
Sinopse
Politics, poverty and puberty combine in this beautifully written coming-of-age tale that examines the bonds of womanhood, feminism and pre-independence life on a small island.
Almost fifty years after Susan Taylor was exiled from Barbados for her famous whistle-blowing novel, 'The Unspeakable Truth', she contacts a young writer to pen her biography. Susan is crotchety and unpleasant but Lia Davis is broke so she has no choice but to stay and write Susan's biography.
As Lia starts to unravel the reclusive author's life, she realizes that some things just don't add up. Susan has been hiding a massive secret for decades and Lia is determined to find out what it is.
The Girl with the Hazel Eyes is an endearing historical fiction that tugs at your heart with its examination of love, lies, and loyalty. This second edition is filled with bonus material that takes the reader even deeper into some characters' backstory and Barbados' colonial history.
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Conscience doth make cowards of us all
Many Barbadian children born after 1966 took free education for granted but during most of the 1950s, there was no such thing. The cost per child of $12 a week plus $4 for extras was a major burden and the only way that many poor black children could afford to go to school was through scholarships. The only problem was that scholarships were purposely designed to keep rank and file Barbadians out of school.
My father immediately countered that school was expensive and he’d rather put John through the best secondary school his money could afford at the time. (…)But she’s a bright girl.”“She’s a girl.”“So?”“Wha’ she going do with education? De most that going come of it is being a school teacher and with the connections I got, she could get a teaching job easy so.”“You connections? We ain’t got the next ten years put way in we pocket, Vincent. Susie is only seven and you ain’t know how this politics thing going work out.”My father would huff impatiently. “So you saying I is a fool? I is man and I say that de little girl don’t need no lot of schooling. Just relax yourself and stop doubting my plan.”“You ain’t got no plan.”
AEvelynSusan confiou-me a sua história.AEvelynSusan confiou-me a sua morte.
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