- Black Families, Black Women, Children, Community life
"A remarkable love, an incredible heist, an extraordinary funeral, and an impassioned search for answers to the profound mysteries of being alive. From playwright Djanet Sears, comes a story set in present-day Negro Creek, a 200-year-old Black community in Western Ontario.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and prestige.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
YesNoUnclear
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Djanet Sears
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 250
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781770914797
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 5 want to.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Olga Dies Dreaming 202280% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary.
The House of Broken Angels 201880% alikeBoth contemporary, earnest, classical in form.
The Mighty Red 202479% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, earnest.
Foreign Gods Inc 201378% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, earnest.
A complicated kindness 200478% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Ghostroots 202478% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form.
The Bingo Palace (P.S.) 199478% alikeBoth contemporary, earnest.
Disobedience 200677% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
7 Virgins 200576% alikeFilm · Both contemporary, classical in form, earnest.
Queer as Folk 199975% alikeTelevision · Both classical in form, contemporary, earnest.