Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas

by Gloria Blizzard

Dundurn Press

Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas

by Gloria Blizzard

Dundurn Press

A diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion.

In this powerful and deeply personal collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to negotiate the complexities of culture, geography, and language in an international diasporic quest.

These essays of wayfinding accompany anyone exploring issues of belonging — to a family, a neighbourhood, a group, or a country. Here, the small is profound, the intimate universal; the questions are all relevant and the answers of our times require simultaneous multiple perspectives.

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Gloria Blizzard is an award-winning writer and poet, and a Black Canadian woman of multiple heritages. Her work explores spaces where music, dance, spirit and culture collide. She brings these perspectives to essays, memoir, poetry and reviews. Gloria has an MFA from the University of King’s College, Halifax, and currently resides in Toronto. Her collection of essays, Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas is published by Dundurn Press. gloriablizzard.com

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