Old House and Red Neckties

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>. . . enlightening poetically engaging and deeply relevant to today's America and for our world. </span><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-Kirandeep Singh Sirah Storyteller TEDx Speaker</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A modern-day Jamaican DeTocqueville Grace critiques political and civil society and helps us see them in revealing new ways. </span><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-Matthew Creelman Journalist Guatemala</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A timely work that addresses the ways the construction of race goes beyond the Black-White dichotomies particularly in the United States. </span><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-Curdella Forbes PhD Author Professor of Caribbean Literature Howard University</strong></p><p><br></p><p>In <em>Old House and Red Neckties</em> Grace Virtue weaves a powerful narrative juxtaposing ideas of home and belonging against stark intergenerational poverty and systemic inequities-legacies of slavery and colonialism in her homeland Jamaica. Migration to the United States a coveted option for many presents transformative opportunities intertwined with displacement disjuncture and oppression-symbolized by a red necktie.</p><p>Armed with the finest values of her village Old House Grace takes the reader on a journey through deeply complex spaces as she engages the world in unexpected ways.</p><p>Thought-provoking and inspirational <em>Old House and Red Neckties</em> is about authenticity resilience and the unyielding spirit of one individual determined to live in dignity and freedom. It is also a clarion call to rethink our perceptions of poverty and oppression and work toward a more just world.</p>