{"product_id":"the-swinging-bridge-9780002255202","title":"The Swinging Bridge","description":"\u003cp\u003eMona  a film researcher rooted in Montreal  vividly remembers that night in Trinidad when her father  Da-Da  in a drunken rage  threatened to kill her nine-year-old brother  Kello. Years later  a terminally ill Kello asks Mona to revisit their native island and reclaim the property that their family had left behind. As Mona returns to the Caribbean to confront her familys turbulent past  the reader travels back in timeto nineteenth-century India  to British Trinidad  where her ancestors lived as indentured workers in the cane fields  and finally to urban North America. Steeped in the lyrical rhythms of Caribbean life  this exquisite  richly layered novel explores the immigrant experience with compassion and humour. It is a moving story of race and displacement  of love and betrayal  of endings and beginningsa swinging bridge of the universal search for self. Praise for The Swinging Bridge \"Beautiful  luminous and an utter pleasure to read. A writer as necessary as Ramabai Espinet should be treasured by us for her unique voice and the unique world she shares with us.\"Jamaica Kincaid \" The Swinging Bridge is a sweeping story . . . of rich heritagea blend of Indian and Caribbean sounds  scents and celebrations.\" NOW Magazine \"An extraordinary achievement in the exercise of remembering. . . . Highly charged with moral intent.\"George Lamming\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923842859061,"sku":"ByrdShop_0002255200","price":91.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780002255202.jpg?v=1794116983","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-swinging-bridge-9780002255202","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}