Golden Child: A Novel
Written by Claire Adam
Narrated by Obi Abili
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A novel from Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint, SJP for Hogarth: a deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love.
Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life.
Clyde, the father, works long, exhausting shifts at the petroleum plant in southern Trinidad; Joy, his wife, looks after the home. Their two sons, 13 years old, wake early every morning to travel to the capital, Port of Spain, for school. They are twins but nothing alike: Paul has always been considered odd, while Peter is widely believed to be a genius, destined for greatness.
When Paul goes walking in the bush one afternoon and doesn't come home, Clyde is forced to go looking for him, this child who has caused him endless trouble already and who he has never really understood. And as the hours turn to days, and Clyde begins to understand Paul’s fate, his world shatters — leaving him faced with a decision no parent should ever have to make.
Like the Trinidadian landscape itself, Golden Child is both beautiful and unsettling; a resoundingly human story of aspiration, betrayal, and love.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Remarkable audiobook. One of the best in years. Hauntingly beautiful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a story of a poor Trinidadian family trying to do their best to survive in a society corrupted by greed. The author has rendered the characters with depth and empathy, a father and mother with identical twin sons whose fates diverge sharply at the moment of their birth. The story unfolds at a measured pace, reflecting the true dilemma of the father, forced to make a tragic choice. Gripping, atmospheric.
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