Dream Country

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Call Number: Teen Book / Fiction / Historical / Gibney, Shannon
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch

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"Spanning two centuries and two continents, Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people caught in a spiral of death and exile between Liberia and the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
"Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people from one African American family chasing an elusive dream across centuries and continents. Gibney conjures an ambitious, sinuous novel from a family tree twisted to its breaking point by slavery and colonialism but ultimately held together by hope and determination"-- Provided by publisher.
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.

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Well done submitted by JJM.Deucher on August 1, 2023, 6:38am YA doesn't feel like the right category for this book, in content, style, and audience appeal. As an adult I liked the linking of the family tree even though it was a little hard to follow and only got totally connected at the very end. I liked some characters (sections of the book from which the story is told) a lot more than others, but I found myself continually reading to see how the book resolved.