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Alasan Mansaray, in his debut novel, A Haunting Heritage, renders a candid and an unprecedented account of African immigrant life in North America. Breaking the conspiracy of silence, the book dispels misconception of heavens abroad by laying bare what it means for an African to survive in the West.
Mansaray in his novel, in what amounts to a literary tour de force, pitches African immigrants' hopes and illusions, about America and African Americans, versus the reality.
In this definitive study of African immigrant experiences abroad, the author treats his readers to an immigrant expulsion spectacle, and to a shot-and-killed and case-dismissed episode, as he unravels America's harsh treatment of African immigrants; starting from the discrepant applications of immigration laws, down to the triple odds that Africans must face from being black, foreign and having an accent in an alienating society with the black burden!
With the craftsmanship of an African griot, Mansaray mixes novelistic and quasi-documentarian narrative in this original African novel with an American twist, and the book has been gloriously received by critics.
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Kesara Goonawardena
reviewed A haunting heritage on February 02, 2010
A haunting heritage
This is a collection of four essays and a "dictionary of formal and informal fire terms." One of the essays, about the Rattlesnake Fire, Maclean has expanded into River of Fire, which I have also reviewed. One is about an entrapment which did not end in tragedy, which is interesting because for once, since there are survivors instead of victims, you can find out what they were thinking. One is about Bob Sallee and the unresolvable question of where Wagner Dodge lit his fire and where Sallee and Rumsey escaped from Mann Gulch. (I'm very defensive of Norman Maclean, because Young Men and Fire is such a brilliant book, but this is a good essay.) One is an overview of American wildfire since 1910. All of the essays are competent; none of them is as good as Maclean's best writing (imho The Esperanza Fire). My favorite part of the book is honestly some of the deadpan definitions in the dictionary, e.g., twig pig: National Park Service law-enforcement ranger. (Firefighters apparently go in for their own kind of rhyming slang.)
So this is a good book, though not a great one.
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