African American

This is the story of two men: one rich, one poor; one white, one black. One is the former slave, and one has the financial backing of English nobleman, but, their ambition is the same: to build their own ranches in the cattle country of Alberta.

"Brooding, obsessive stories of contemporary Black life in Canada and the Caribbean offer an intimate view of women driven by poverty to leave their homes for a hostile new country...Her lyrical gifts are unobtrusively displayed and her characters are affecting."- Publishers Weekly

I knew it wasn't true. It couldn't be. . . . And yet, I couldn't help staring at him, wondering. However fleeting, there was the slightest hint of doubt in my mind. Didi Randall doesn't think her life can get much worse than public humiliation when her boyfriend is the subject of a vicious rumor on campus. Despite their four-year relationship, the …