Junie
Knight, Chelene
Junie / Chelene Knight - Toronto : Book*Hug Press , 2022 - 331 p. ; 21 cm
A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood. 1930s, Hogan's Alley - a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver's East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. Junie quickly makes meaningful relationships with two mentors and a girl her own age, Estelle, whose resilient and entrepreneurial mother is grappling with white scrutiny and the fact that she never really wanted a child. As Junie finds adulthood, exploring her artistic talents and burgeoning sexuality, her mother sinks further into the bottle while the thriving neighbourhood - once gushing with potential - begins to change. As her world opens, Junie intuits the opposite for the community she loves.
English
9781771667685
Mothers and daughters----Fiction
Women, Black----Fiction
Authors, Canadian
Vancouver, BC---Fiction
FIC KNI
Junie / Chelene Knight - Toronto : Book*Hug Press , 2022 - 331 p. ; 21 cm
A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood. 1930s, Hogan's Alley - a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver's East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. Junie quickly makes meaningful relationships with two mentors and a girl her own age, Estelle, whose resilient and entrepreneurial mother is grappling with white scrutiny and the fact that she never really wanted a child. As Junie finds adulthood, exploring her artistic talents and burgeoning sexuality, her mother sinks further into the bottle while the thriving neighbourhood - once gushing with potential - begins to change. As her world opens, Junie intuits the opposite for the community she loves.
English
9781771667685
Mothers and daughters----Fiction
Women, Black----Fiction
Authors, Canadian
Vancouver, BC---Fiction
FIC KNI
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