Antiguan writer publishes book entitled “Six Steps”

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Ginevra Grasso is the Head of the Press Office for Europe Books and introduces their new book: “SIX STEPS: AN AFRICAN-BARBUDAN-CARRIBEAN STORY” by Claudia Ruth Francis, a writer who currently lives in Antigua and Barbuda. CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP.

                                                                                                     

Six Steps is an African-Barbudan-Caribbean story. Charity is born in the city of Leicester in England in 1950. She is an orphan. She lives in a number of foster homes. At the age of ten, she receives a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school and hopes that her loneliness will lessen in her new environment.

 

It is during this period that she discovers her ability to commune with her African ancestors. Charity learns that her grandmother five times removed was kidnapped from Africa in 1813.

 

She is able to relive her ordeal and is introduced to the lives of her subsequent grandmothers born on the island of Barbuda in the Caribbean. Eventually Charity meets her mother and, together with her female forebears, she learns the history of Barbuda, the sister island to Antigua, part of the Leeward Islands.

 

But in 2022, is the island at risk from climate change, home grown gold diggers, foreign designs, and re-colonization? This story is for all of us to contemplate; the recent history of Barbuda suggests a Caribbean future fraught with challenges for our children. It is a story written especially for young adults and the wider public.

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  1. Claudia Ruth Francis sounds like another Elaine Potter Richardson (aka, Jamaica Kincaid) in the making.

    Claudia seems to have the same sort of prose and poetic style; and if she can emulate the success of books like ‘A Small Place’, and ‘Annie John’ by Jamica Kincaid she’ll go far.

    All the best for the future …👍

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