Where Beauty Survived: An Africadian Memoir

by George Elliott Clarke

A vibrant, revealing memoir about the cultural and familial pressures that shaped George Elliott Clarke's early life in the Black Canadian community that he calls Africadia, centred in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

As a boy, George Elliott Clarke knew that a great deal was expected from him and his two brothers. The descendant of a highly accomplished lineage on his paternal side--great-grandson to William Andrew White, the first Black...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 034581228X
• ISBN13: 9780345812285
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Knopf Canada
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"