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Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming

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But when he speaks of his grandmother, there is beauty and love and poetry in the way he depicts her strength and faith and eventually her encroaching weakness. His recollection of his childhood in Trinidad is lush with descriptions of friends, land, rivalry, mischief, faith, and yearning. This memoir rings as a true depiction of what it is to be human. Many things I can empathize with directly, others I can only try to understand given I'm a Canadian born white woman who has never lived outside her native country.

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No, it’s OK. I don’t like talking small. Her wisdom, and way of moving through the world, is her legacy to me. In the same way that she read the Psalms of David in the Bible, music was another way for her to pray. In the book, I don’t tell you I went to dancehall parties as a teenager. I describe how we went to someone’s house, people were making out outside, something was throbbing and pulsing and I didn’t know what it was. Suddenly, I’m in the basement and people are dancing and banging on the furnace. And the DJ is yelling, “Wheeeeeeel selector!” I want you to feel it. Taste it. Get it on your skin and in your nostrils, so you know what I’m going through.

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The story - the writing - the telling - really seemed to find itself after the death of Tony’s grandmother and his subsequent move to Canada. Perhaps this is an artefact of his being older and the memories being less speculative… the experiences being ones he truly remembered on his own? Or perhaps it was my own - unconscious - reaction to the childhood events described, how devastating they were (not that later events weren’t equally devastating…).

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Saga Boy is an eloquent memoir about Anthony Michael Downing’s experiences as an immigrant in a minority population; it centers his resilience. Downing’s memoir showcases his love for language that started with the poetry of proverbs and psalms he read in that King James Bible in Trinidad. He grew up speaking Trini slang mixed with the English and French of his country’s colonizers. Today, he continues playing with language through writing and performing rap and hip-hop music. But despite being around his family, Downing often felt neglected by them, particularly on an emotional level. He was the victim of abuse as a young boy in Trinidad and thought only he knew about it, only to find out years later that his family suspected but said and did nothing. Even when his mother or father brought additional trauma and continually broke his trust, Downing’s other family members still insisted he needed to stay in touch with them because they were his parents. These constant betrayals meant that Downing relied on himself to figure out his path and who he would become. They led to all the identities he tried out over the years. As Mic Dainjah, he was the lead singer of a band called Jen Militia. When he was performing he "vanished to a place with no father, no mother, no corporate bosses, no good kids to keep up with - just the certainty of being alive and somewhere I belonged."An insider’s account of the rampant misconduct within the Trump administration, including the tumult surrounding the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021. Speaking of the monarchy—I was surprised by your nuanced take on colonialism in the book, and in this interview. I expected it to be more straightforwardly painful.

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Do you think she’d be proud of how you’re trying to reconcile that, and becoming a published author and celebrated musician in the process? The colonizer and colonized were wrapped into one thing. That’s who I am. The Queen is in my brain. But that’s why I throw a Biggie reference with Homer. A Shakespeare reference with Hank Williams. I recognize the legacy of both the skin I’m in and my mind’s design, not by me but by the Queen and King James. And I take hold of both. In Saga Boy,] Downing deploys spectacular details in describing [his] childhood years, the sights, sounds and violence of that place and time. The prose in those early passages is exalted and melodic. Even as the tremendous care in its crafting seems evident, the words also flow naturally. Downing never seems to press. We see vast and granular marvels through the eyes of a child still capable of awe.” He also writes with an awareness that the region's own will recognize when it comes to the influence and constructed models left behind and instituted by our former colonizers. The language, schooling, religion, and social behaviours and mores. Lalaland official launch will be on May 13, 2022 but please come join us today for our soft launch.

An enthralling, deeply personal examination of the search for a home and the long-lasting effects of immigrant cultural dislocation. Singularly dazzling, Saga Boy is a brilliant collage of the twenty-first century's most incredible memoirs. Told with an unforgettable and innovative pace, this a book I will reread forever.” The beginnings of who he could become is hinted at when he writes a 'choon' that is sung by Junior's band. Over time Junior spent increasing amounts of time away from home. Eventually he moved out and became "a space I no longer recognized." Michael escaped the lonely craziness of his homelife by retreating into words and songs. He didn't understand that these were the same things Miss Excelly had needed to survive: "how to read and how to sing." From a personal perspective, it was great to read this book and get to know a lot better someone I've known for years. From a simply reader's perspective it was an enthralling journey that would have had me hooked regardless of the author. Many times I would forget who I was reading about.

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