Café Babanussa |
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Authors: | Hill, Karen |
Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
BISAC/Subject: | FIC000000 |
ISBN: | 9781443438933, Related ISBNs: 1443438936, 9781443438926, 9781443438933 |
Classification: | Non-Fiction |
Number of pages: | 368, |
Audience: | General/trade |
A moving portrait of a young woman’s experience of life, love and the shifting tides of mental health in 1980s–era Berlin
In this beautifully written and moving novel, informed by many of the author’s own experiences, a young mixed-race woman travels from Canada to Germany to start her life anew. Ruby Edwards, escaping a loving but at times overbearing family, throws herself into the shifting social and political sinews of 1980s-era West Berlin—a time of new music, punk rockers, travellers, racial tensions and a beating pulse of artistic energy. Here, Ruby finds love and new challenges, striving to discover the person she was meant to be. But the highs become too high and the lows too low, and Ruby finds herself plunged into the depths of mental illness. With courage and determination, Ruby again and again pulls herself back from the brink and revels in what matters most to her—her family, her community and her own individuality. Inspiring and heart-rending, Cafe Babanussa is an engrossing, deftly crafted novel by a voice that was lost to us all too soon.
Also includes Karen Hill’s original essay, “On Being Crazy”.
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