I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter - Chariandy, David

Clean, tight, unmarked absolute minimal wear; appears unread; When a moment of quietly ignored bigotry prompted his 3-year-old daughter to ask "what happened?" David Chariandy began wondering how to discuss with his children the politics of race. A decade later, in a newly heated era of both struggle and divisions, he writes a letter to his now 13-year-old daughter. David is the son of Black and South Asian migrants from Trinidad, and he draws upon his personal and ancestral pas, including the legacies of slavery, indenture, and immigration, as well as the experiences of growing up a visible minority with the land of one's birth. In sharing with his daughter his own story, he hopes to help cultivate within her a sense of identity and responsibility that balances the painful truths of the past and present with hopeful possibilities for the future.
Fine in Fine dust jacket
Hardcover
McClelland & Stewart
2018
Canada