Back To ListBlack Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other DilemmasEssaysByGloria BlizzardAvailable Jun 4th 2024Paperback$ 24.99Paperback$ 24.99PDF$ 23.99ePub$ 10.99E-mail me when this book is availableRequired Email meShop LocalDescriptionA diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion.In this powerful and deeply personal collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to negotiate the complexities of culture, geography, and language in an international diasporic quest.These essays of wayfinding accompany anyone exploring issues of belonging — to a family, a neighbourhood, a group, or a country. Here, the small is profound, the intimate universal; the questions are all relevant and the answers of our times require simultaneous multiple perspectives.Of Related InterestPersephone's ChildrenRowan McCandlessAlphabet SoupA. Gregory FranksonBones of BelongingAnnahid DashtgardReviews Mesmerizing, lyrical, and cadenced, Gloria Blizzard’s essays move like music.Ayelet Tsabari, author of The Art of LeavingGloria effortlessly weaves elements of her life — its challenges and its gifts — into contemporary conversations about identity, feminism, the diaspora, art, and belonging.Lorri Neilsen Glenn, author of The Old Man in Her ArmsPreviousNextContributorsGloria BlizzardGloria Blizzard is an award-winning writer and poet, and a Black Canadian woman of multiple heritages. Her work explores spaces where music, dance, spirit, and culture collide. She lives in Toronto.View Author Page Book DetailsPaperbackJune 20245.5x8.5 in208 pp9781459752801PDFJune 2024-208 pp9781459752818ePubJune 2024-208 pp9781459752825