The Chosen Place the Timeless People

Name: The Chosen Place the Timeless People
Author: Paule Marshall

by Paule Marshall

Novel about outsiders transforming a Caribbean island community through cross-cultural collaboration

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Paule Marshall

American novelist and short-story writer of Barbadian descent whose work pioneered the literary exploration of the African diaspora. Brown Girl, Brownstones is a foundational novel of Caribbean-American literature. She influenced a generation of writers from Toni Morrison to Jamaica Kincaid.

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