Tea By The Sea

In honour of Caribbean-American Heritage Month, the BCLF will celebrate the launch of Donna Hemans’ sophomore novel ‘Tea by the Sea’. Hemans is an award-winning writer, a 2003 finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the co-winner of the 2003-4 Towson University Prize for Literature.

Tea by the Sea has been called "...a powder keg of a novel, where secrets and lies explode into truth and consequences, all told with spellbinding, shattering power" by Marlon James (Man Booker Prize Winner). It is a masterfully expressed story of one mother’s relentless search for a daughter lost as a newborn, that will touch that most umbilical place inside of you. Will it make you cry? We can't promise that it won't.

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Written in tender, descriptive and attentive prose, Hemans brings to the fore questions about family, parenthood, deeply-entrenched gender roles, abandonment and loss. More beautifully, she leaves those questions to the…