Searching for Zion
by Emily Raboteau
Publication Date: Feb 11, 2014
List Price: $17.00
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780802122278
Imprint: Grove Press
Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
Parent Company: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
Paperback Description:
"I doubt there will be a more important work of nonfiction this year."— Dave Eggers
In this landmark work of narrative nonfiction, award-winning author Emily Raboteau journeys from Harlem to Israel, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Ghana and across the American South on a quest for the Black Promised Land. A memoir that penetrates Raboteau’s need for a homeland to call her own, Searching for Zion also expresses the African-American longing for full citizenship.
"I doubt there will be a more important work of nonfiction this year."— Dave Eggers
In this landmark work of narrative nonfiction, award-winning author Emily Raboteau journeys from Harlem to Israel, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Ghana and across the American South on a quest for the Black Promised Land. A memoir that penetrates Raboteau’s need for a homeland to call her own, Searching for Zion also expresses the African-American longing for full citizenship.
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