Kisdadee Girl

Download or read book Kisdadee Girl written by Maggie Harris and published by HopeRoad. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful forces surge through British Guiana as it transforms into independent Guyana. Margaret must navigate her own independence. Scottish, Portuguese, African: all and none of these, this teenager of the emergent Caribbean learns seduction Hollywood-style, but she belongs to more than a century of transgressions. She kisses forbidden faces, the living colours of colonial history. Love and loss come home to her in two men of the river.;When Margaret is just fifteen, her father dies. A little later, she packs up her dreams, leaves her riverman and makes the Atlantic crossing. But the spirits of her old geography keep whispering.