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The Adventures of A Black Girl in Search of God
From Governor General's Literary Award–winning playwright Djanet Sears comes a beautiful and deeply moving story set in present-day Negro Creek, a two-hundred-year-old black community in Western Ontario. Rainey Baldwin-Jackson, a country doctor, struggles to come to terms with the loss of her daughter, the disintegration of her marriage, and an eccentric elderly father on an astonishing crusade.
Djanet Sears is a playwright, actor and director of Jamaican and Guyanese descent born in England and based in Ontario.
Other publications from this author include:
- Afrika, Solo (2011)
- Harlem Duet (1997)
- Who Killed Katie Ross (1995)
- The Mother Project (1991)
- Double Trouble (1988)