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Is America She Gone?
Is America She Gone?
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When Sandra, a single mother of two, decides to go to Brooklyn and work illegally for six months as a caregiver, she really believes that she will be able to make a lot of money in a short space of time. Encouraged by her cousin Patsy who lives in Brooklyn, Sandra leaves her children Antonio and Andrea behind, in the hope that she will be able to make a better life for them.

In the diverse community of Brooklyn with its large West Indian population, she feels very much at home. However after a few unfortunate encounters, Sandra soon realizes that America is not quite the place that she naively imagined it to be. She questions the wisdom of her decision many times but in her desire to send barrels home to her children, she loses sight of what is truly important family.

Andrea and Antonio face many challenges, as they struggle to cope with their mother's absence. Their father, who has started a new family, does not offer much parental support. Soon they fall prey to bad company and it is only a matter of time before their lives become irreversibly changed.

When Sandra eventually returns to Trinidad having achieved her financial goals, she learns the hard way that money cannot take the place of a parents love and the price she must pay in the end for her decision is higher than she had ever imagined it would be.


From the Author of The Stolen Cascadura
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateNov 8, 2012
ISBN9781477282762
Is America She Gone?
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Beverley-Ann Scott

Beverley-Ann Scott is a medical doctor and author of The Stolen Cascadura, which was selected by the Trinidad and Tobago National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS), for the 2012 One Book One Community Project. Dr. Scott holds a BSc in Information Systems and Management from the University of London and a Doctor of Medicine degree from Our Lady of Fatima University, Manila, Philippines. She spent many years in the business and banking sector before deciding to pursue a career in medicine. She is one of the youngest authors of West Indian fiction from the island of Trinidad and Tobago where she currently lives and works.

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