Author: Michelle Cliff
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: abeng
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1995-09-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0452274834
ISBN-13: 9780452274839

A lyrical coming-of-age story and a provocative retelling of the colonial history of Jamaica Originally published in 1984, this critically acclaimed novel is the story of Clare Savage, a light-skinned, twelve-year-old, middle-class girl growing up in Jamaica in the 1950s. As she tries to find her own identity and place in her culture, Clare carries the burden of her mixed heritage. There are the Maroons, who used the conch shellthe abengto pass messages as they fought against their English enslavers. And there is her white great-great-grandfather, Judge Savage, who burned his hundred slaves