Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming

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Downing seamlessly blends poetic images, music, and storytelling to create a poignant and stunningly honest memoir of a young man’s adamant determination to navigate his position and find himself despite the boundaries of colonialism, racism, and the endless sense of disbelonging. When she’s grown-up, Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the beach mansions sets off a chain of events with terrible consequences. I did a lot of interviews to not only fact check what happened, but also to talk through those memories and see what came through as the truth, and what didn’t hold up.

Review of Saga Boy (9781571311917) — Foreword Reviews

The menu focuses on small plates, like masala chips, aloo pies, wicked wings, and great cocktails – Mr Rum’s Punch and Hemming-my-way are particularly popular.I am happy for him that he seems to be working through his childhood trauma and was really rooting for him throughout the whole story (except the part with the assault on his girlfriend which was shocking to hear but I did appreciate his honesty). Her initial portrait of Trump is less critical than those written by other former staffers, as the author gauges how his actions were seemingly stirred more by vanity and fear of appearing weak, rather than pure malevolency. I was struck by Downing's intuition and survival instincts, even when he is the smallest person in the room, which is often, he is always aware and watchful, almost as if he is reading, absorbing the facets of the situation, learning, so that he is then able to transform what he has learned into something beneficial. Saga Boy is raw, honest, and an essential read for those looking to get an understanding of the immigrant experience and blackness in Canada. He briefly reunites with the feckless biological parents who abandoned him--Al, a womanizing con man and drug addict, and Gloria, twice abandoned by Al, who seems to regard her sons as cash machines.

Saga Boy | Milkweed Editions

Singularly dazzling, Saga Boy is a brilliant collage of the twenty-first century's most incredible memoirs.Miss Excelly stands with ramrod dignity, glories in the Lord’s love, and jumps off the page with her strength, her joy, and her suffering. Many cultures have that one dish that provides so much satisfaction in time of need, hunger or worry!

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