Dream country

The Resource Dream country
Label
Dream country
Statement of responsibility
Shannon Gibney
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
2008, Minneapolis. Kollie Flomo, at once too black and not black enough for his African American peers and worn down by the expectations of his own Liberian family and community, turns to violence. 1926, Liberia. Togar Somah, an indigenous Liberian, is on the run from government militias that would force him to work the plantations of the Congo people, descendants of the African American slaves who colonized Liberia almost a century earlier. 1827. The children of Yasmine Wright leave a Virginia plantation with their mother for Liberia, promised freedom by the American Colonization Society. 1980. Ujay and Evelyn dare to believe their love can survive Liberia's approaching revolution. 2018, Minneapolis. A dreamer attempts to weave her family's history into a new future.-- adapted from jacket
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
[Fic]
Index
no index present
LC call number
PZ7.1.G5
LC item number
Dre 2018
Literary form
fiction
Target audience
adolescent

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