The Fourteenth of September by Rita Dragonette

We must all take on faith the stories of our birth, for though we are in them, we are not yet present. The Fourteenth of September, her debut novel, is based upon her personal experiences on campus during the Vietnam War. Was it Gold Coast I dreamed of, the slave fort at Annamaboe? How could that be so, you ask? Ask yourself what you know of your own beginnings, and if your life is so very different. Naked men yoked together and stumbling up rotted planks into a dark brig. For years I did not privilege one origin over the other, but in my first years free I came to suffer strange dreams, flashes of images: Tall, staked wooden palisades, walls of black jungle beyond. There is the poetry of quiet to Gary Wilsons storytelling, always there beneath the surface of. In the latter account my mother died in the difficult birth. Rita Dragonette, author of The Fourteenth of September. I have also heard it said I was born in a shackled cargo hold during a frenzied crossing of the Atlantic, aboard an illicit Dutch vessel. I was born in the year 1818 on that sun-scorched estate in Barbados. I am a Freeman now in possession of my own person. The Fourteenth of September - by Rita Dragonette (Paperback) The Fourteenth of September The Fourteenth of September (Paperback) The Fourteenth Of September: A Novel - more - More Info.

I have walked this earth for eighteen years. An enthralling historical novel set during the peak of the Vietnam War and told through the rare perspective of a young woman, who traces her path to self. “Allow me to begin again, for the record.

The Fourteenth of September by Rita Dragonette