Bibliograph

Up the garden path ;, & the adventures of the Black girl in her search for God, Lisa Codrington

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Up the garden path ;, & the adventures of the Black girl in her search for God, Lisa Codrington

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Up the garden path ;

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Lisa Codrington

Sub title

& the adventures of the Black girl in her search for God

Summary

In Up the Garden Path, Rosa, a young Barbadian seamstress, offers to pose as her brother to go to the Niagara Region in Ontario to work. There, she meets an aspiring actress obsessed with Joan of Arc, the ghost of a black Loyalist soldier who wants to die and a boss who can't keep the starlings away from his failing vineyard. Finding it impossible to ignore their demands, but not wanting to be found out and sent home, Rosa has to stop and figure out what she really wants instead of what everyone around her needs. Based on Bernard Shaw's short story, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God follows a black girl who is abandoned by a white missionary for asking too many questions. Taking matters into her own hands, the Black Girl sets off to find out who or what God really is. Along the way she meets a number of characters who have very different views on God, but the Black Girl's unrelenting questions create conflict, and in the end she's forced to make her own decisions on God and her search

Target audience

adult

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