The Girl with the Golden Shoes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781933354262)

Set in 1942 on the imagined island of San Carlos, a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica, this is the story of Estrella Thompson, a headstrong fourteen-year-old girl who's forced to fend for herself when she's banished from the isolated fishing village where she's lived all her life.

Colin Channer's major works of fiction include the novel Waiting in Vain and the story collection Passing Through, which Junot D az described as "a splendid collection by one of the Caribbean Diaspora's finest writers." He also edited Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop (Akashic Books, 2006). Channer is an assistant professor of English and the coordinator of the BA creative writing program at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York.


Author: Colin Channer
ISBN-10: 1933354267
ISBN-13: 9781933354262
Publisher: Akashic Books
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2007
Pages: 170
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.58w x 0.58d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/19/2007 pg. 38
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2007 pg. 241
Entertainment Weekly 05/04/2007 pg. 144
Booklist 05/01/2007 pg. 72
Library Journal 06/01/2007 pg. 107
Multicultural Review 12/01/2007 pg. 52

About the Author
COLIN CHANNER's major works of fiction include the novel Waiting in Vain and the story collection Passing Through, which Junot Diaz described as a splendid collection by one of the Caribbean Diaspora's finest writers. He is an assistant professor of English and the coordinator of the B.A. creative writing program at Medgar Evers College.