Finding Home [Reading]

Home - is it a place, a feeling, a memory? This week, Between the Covers focuses on "Finding Home," people learning where they came from and where they fit in. 1 Childhood An excerpt from an award-winning novel by Andre Alexis, the host of Radio Nomad,  based on Alexis’ experience of growing up in a small Canadian border town. 2 Drawing Down A Daughter Claire Harris is an award-winning Canadian poet of Trinidadian background. An excerpt from her book, is a meditation on friendship, love and motherhood. 3 Bonanza 1972 in Toronto A story by Giller Prize-winner Austin Clarke. Pinky, a Barbados-born domestic servant, gets the opportunity to have a fancy night out. It's a night that changes Pinky's life forever, 4 Sharon Lewis’ Poverty and Love - Indigo About a home where each parent is from a different culture and a different colour, and children often struggle to find their own place. One of the children must travel very far before she can find a place that is home to her. 5 Kipligat's Choice by David Odhiambo A novel about a teenage émigré living in a poor neighbourhood of Vancouver. In it, a track scholarship becomes a way out of poverty and a disintegrating home life. Between The Covers Five episodes From 9 February 2004

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.