A Map to the Door of No Return, Dionne Brand
A Map to the Door of No Return, Dionne Brand
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A Map to the Door of No Return

Author: Dionne Brand

Narrator: Dionne Brand, Saidiya Hartman

Unabridged: 8 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 04/25/2023

Synopsis

A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and poetic book of discovery.

Drawing on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across the Canadian landscape, African ancestry, histories, politics, philosophies and literature, Dionne Brand sketches the shifting borders of home and nation, the connection to place in Canada and the world beyond.

The title, A Map to the Door of No Return, refers to both a place in imagination and a point in history—the Middle Passage. The quest for identity and place has profound meaning and resonance in an age of heterogenous identities.

In this exquisitely written and thought-provoking new work, Dionne Brand creates a map of her own art.

About The Author

DIONNE BRAND's literary credentials are legion. Her novel, Theory was a Globe and Mail Best Book. Her poetry collection, The Blue Clerk, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won the Trillium Book Prize. Her collection Ossuaries won the Griffin Poetry Prize, and other collections have won the Governor General's Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Among her novels, In Another Place, Not Here was selected as a NYT Book Review Notable Book and a Best Book by the Globe and Mail; At the Full and Change of the Moon was selected a Best Book by the LA Times; and What We All Long For won the Toronto Book Award. In 2006, Brand was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the world of books and writing, and from 2009 to 2012 she served as Toronto's Poet Laureate. In 2017, she was named to the Order of Canada. She lives in Toronto.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephanie on December 27, 2014

The easiest 5 stars. Brand is a literary genius.......more

Goodreads review by Khadijah on May 23, 2017

I want to give this book infinite stars. Part travelogue, part cartographic/geographic history, simultaneous unraveling/definition of diasporic Blackness, this book is gorgeous and brilliant and required.......more

Goodreads review by Kiki on January 15, 2020

The five stars have no meaning. Bookstagram | Twitter......more

Goodreads review by Sally on April 13, 2025

This book is exquisite!! Lyrical, captivating, heartbreaking, brooding. Dionne Brand’s way with words and images is like none other—this was an urgent and breathtakingly beautiful read. I will never be able to stop thinking about the Door of No Return…......more

Goodreads review by Shivanee on November 04, 2021

If there is a book that might call you to yourself, across the vast and wild and violent years of your life, then let it be this one. It will not be tender or merciful. But it will tell you your name every time, as clear and sharp as a bone kissing another bone.......more

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