Length7h 15m
About this audiobook
Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award
Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2024
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.
Told through the fascinating lens of a bright woman in an oft-disquieting world, this book is intimate and urgent—not just an unflinching look at the destruction of a vibrant community, but a celebration of the Black lives within.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.0 (807)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, Amazon, LibraryThing
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length7 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byNneka Elliott
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMay 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
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