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Book

They dream in gold : a novel

Call Number

  • FICTION SENN (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : SJP Lit, a Zando imprint, 2024.

Physical Description

[xiii], 415 pages ; 24 cm.

Summary

"When Bonnie and Mansour meet in New York in 1968--his piercing gaze in a downtown jazz club threatening to carry her away--their connection is undeniable. Both from fractured homes, with childhoods spent crossing the Atlantic, they quickly find peace with each other. And as Mansour's soaring Senegalese melodies continue to break new ground, keeping time with the sound of revolution and taking him and Bonnie from Paris to Rio and Switzerland, it seems as though happiness might finally be around the corner for them both. Then Mansour goes missing. His Spanish tour was only meant to last three weeks, but three months later, he and his band have not returned. In his absence, Bonnie reckons with her memories of him, and comes to understand that the hopes of so many women--her mother and grandmother; his mother, aunt, childhood friend--rest on her perseverance. Stirred by the life growing inside her, Bonnie puts a plan in action to find him"--

Contents

  • The ingredients
  • The twins
  • The search for Mansour
  • The geeks of Mulberry High
  • When Sylvia went south to defend the widows of the lynched
  • The search for Mansour (part two)
  • The first album
  • Mende
  • The release
  • Claudine
  • The death of Carl Keifer
  • Morning. Black. Fire.
  • The death of Carl Keifer (part two)
  • Repatriated expatriates
  • Sokhna and the Talibé
  • The first time she flew a plane, Sokhna was thirteen
  • The people of the cave
  • The search for Mansour (part three)
  • The law of conservation of energy
  • Like Claudine, Mama was a woman who traveled the world alone
  • Chicks die all the time
  • A drop of gold
  • Mama's dream
  • Salvador de Bahia
  • The Rio airport is one body
  • The last (indie) gigs
  • On Liam's side of town
  • The third trimester
  • A Black man is a Black man is a Black man is a Black man is a Black man is a Black man is a Black man is a Black man is a Black man...
  • To spark a fire on the air
  • On the night shift, a prison guard prays Isha
  • The birth begins
  • He calls on a Sunday
  • Cher Mansour
  • Bonnie is married
  • On the inside, everybody has a sound.

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