Where Beauty Survived An Africadian Memoir

As a boy, George Elliott Clarke knew that a great deal was expected as a descendant of a highly accomplished, Virginia-descended family on his father's side. In contrast, his mother's family were warm, down-to-earth country folk. Such contradictions underlay much of his life and upbringing - Black and White, country and city, outstanding and ordinary, high and low. This is the story of a complicated family, of the emotional stress that white racism exerts on Black households, of the unique cultural geography of Africadia, of a child who became a poet, and of long-kept secrets. Hometown: Halifax, N.S. Print run 7,500.