Dominoes at the Crossroads, Kaie Kellough
Dominoes at the Crossroads, Kaie Kellough
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Dominoes at the Crossroads
Short Stories

Author: Kaie Kellough

Narrator: Kaie Kellough

Unabridged: 6 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 07/30/2022

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

Dominoes at the Crossroads maps an alternate Canada—one crisscrossed by a Caribbean diaspora seeking music, futures, and portals to their past.In this collection of stories, Kaie Kellough’s characters navigate race, history, and coming-of-age by way of their confessions and dreams. Through the eyes of jazz musicians, hitchhikers, quiet suburbanites, student radicals, secret agents, historians, and their fugitive slave ancestors, Kellough guides us from the cobblestones of Montreal’s Old Port to the foliage of a South American rainforest, from a basement in wartime Paris to an underground antique shop in Montréal during the October Crisis, allowing the force of imagination to tip the balance of time like a line of dominoes.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on November 01, 2020

A collection of short stories with characters that reappear in subsequent sections and protagonists that tend to sound remarkably similar - which might explain why a writer named Kaie Kellough occasionally pops up as if to remind the reader that it is in fact someone else telling the story. It is th......more

Goodreads review by BookOfCinz on July 18, 2021

This is a solid collection of stories, some I enjoyed and others I thought, "a wah gwan yasso?" The ones that were good were really good and the ones I did not like I really did not like. I love how the author wrote about Caribbean history, being displace, identity and finding community. I do recomm......more

Goodreads review by erin on November 23, 2021

started off strong, but the narrator got more and more aggravating. i enjoyed the emphasis on the fact that a story doesn't necessarily need a main character, and the focus of readers on this aspect can result in losing the primary focus of the author's message or intent. some of this did get lost i......more

Goodreads review by 2TReads on August 22, 2022

3.5/4 stars 'If you are afraid to shoot the general, you are afraid to be free.' Kellough's stories ring with history, a speculative future, and an understanding of how we have existed in places that have always abused, appropriated, and alienated us. What compelled me most though each story was how Ke......more

Goodreads review by memegwan on November 27, 2024

Couldn’t get attached to the stories that much…......more