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Dominoes at the Crossroads

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Dominoes at the Crossroads

Written by: Kaie Kellough
Narrated by: Kaie Kellough
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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.

©2020 Kaie Kellough (P)2022 Bespeak Audio Editions Anthologies & Short Stories Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories World Literature
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Critic Reviews

“The sheer torque of Dominoes at the Crossroads is a testament to Kellough’s willingness to dwell in the hurricane. The result is an urgent and inimitable collection that honours the rebels in the diaspora.” — Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Quill & Quire

“This is more than a book of linked short stories with Black Canadians as its subject. Dominoes at the Crossroads articulates how Black history is not marginal to Canada’s story, but central to it — encoded in its history, and therefore its future too.” — Jade Colbert, Globe and Mail

“Kellough’s stories are written as mirrors for the travels that ancestors took, by choice or by force ... (he) successfully plants the reader in two or more places, embodying diverse identities at multiple points in time while showcasing the effects of discrimination and racism.” — Natalie Lang, The Ormsby Review

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