Dominoes at the Crossroads

By (author): Kaie Kellough

In Dominoes at the Crossroads Kaie Kellough maps an alternate nation–one populated by Caribbean Canadians who hopscotch across the country. The characters navigate race, class, and coming-of-age. Seeking opportunity, some fade into the world around them, even as their minds hitchhike, dream, and soar. Some appear in different times and hemispheres, whether as student radicals, secret agents, historians, fugitive slaves, or jazz musicians.

From the cobblestones of Montreal’s Old Port through the foliage of a South American rainforest; from a basement in wartime Paris to a metro in Montréal during the October Crisis; Kellough’s fierce imagination reconciles the personal and ancestral experience with the present moment, grappling with the abiding feeling of being elsewhere, even when here.

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Kaie Kellough

Kaie Kellough is a word-sound systemizer. He is the author of two collections of poetry: Lettricity (Cumulus Press) and Maple Leaf Rag (ARP Books).  He has issued two sound recordings: Vox:Versus (WOW), and Creole Continuum (HOWL!), and he has given hundreds of sound poetry performances in Canada and internationally. Kaie’s writing and audio work fuses formal experiment and social engagement, and has appeared in journals in Africa, Japan, Australia, Europe, and the United States. Accordéon  (ARP Books) is Kaie’s debut novel.


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In Dominoes at the Crossroads Kaie Kellough maps an alternate nation–one populated by Caribbean Canadians who hopscotch across the country. The characters navigate race, class, and coming-of-age. Seeking opportunity, some fade into the world around them, even as their minds hitchhike, dream, and soar. Some appear in different times and hemispheres, whether as student radicals, secret agents, historians, fugitive slaves, or jazz musicians.

From the cobblestones of Montreal’s Old Port through the foliage of a South American rainforest; from a basement in wartime Paris to a metro in Montréal during the October Crisis; Kellough’s fierce imagination reconciles the personal and ancestral experience with the present moment, grappling with the abiding feeling of being elsewhere, even when here.

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Dimensions:

196 Pages
7.5in * 5in * 1in
1lb

Published:

January 20, 2020

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Vehicule Press

ISBN:

9781550655315

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Short Stories

Featured In:

Books by Black Authors

Language:

eng

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