Dream country

Title
Dream country

Author
Gibney, Shannon author.

ISBN
9780525638476

Edition
Unabridged.

Physical Description
7 audio discs (8 hr., 57 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note
Compact discs.

Subject Term
Families -- Liberia -- Fiction.
 
Families -- Minnesota -- Fiction.
 
Slavery -- Fiction.
 
Refugees -- Fiction.
 
Liberian Americans -- Fiction.
 
African Americans -- Fiction.
 
Americans -- Liberia -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Liberia -- History -- To 1847 -- Fiction.
 
Liberia -- History -- 1847-1944 -- Fiction.
 
Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Fiction.

Genre
Audiobooks.
 
Historical fiction.

Added Author
Turpin, Bahni

Local Subject
Spoken compact disc collection.

Summary
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.


LibraryCall NumberStatus
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)SCD FICTION GIB 7 DISCSAudiobooks Fiction