Peta-Gaye Nash

I too Hear the Drums

stories revised edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Short stories of Canadian/Jamaican life; real life situations; set in Canada mainly, but also in the Caribbean. Deals with immigrant family, biracial, interfaith, substance abuse, generational disconnect, stereotyping.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peta-Gaye Nash
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9781926926445
• ISBN-10: 1926926447
• Artikelnr.: 47587119

Autorenporträt

Peta-Gaye Nash is an adult and children's author. She was born in 1968 in Kingston, Jamaica and has also lived in the United States, Norway and Canada. She studied Labour Relations at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and has made Canada home for the past twenty years. Peta-Gaye wrote her first children's story in 2003 but she put it at the back of her closet because the story didn't have a happy ending. Six years later, Peta-Gaye's story got its happy ending and her first children's book, Don't Take Raja to School, was published. She has six children's books published and in 2015, she won the Marty Awards for Emerging Literary Art. In 2013, she got an honorable mention for the same award. Peta-Gaye teaches English as a Second Language during the day and writes at night. She lives in Mississauga, Ontario with her husband and four children.