{"product_id":"yesterdays-harold-sonny-ladoo-9781552454787","title":"Yesterdays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rediscovered classic, Yesterdays turns colonialism on its head.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1974, \u003ci\u003eYesterdays\u003c\/i\u003e is nominally the story of one man's attempt to launch a Hindu Mission from Trinidad to convert the heathen Christians of Canada. Yet this conceit quickly derails into a ribald, outrageous portrait of West Indian village life, and a prescient, proto-parody of what would become the archetypal 'immigrant story.' Sacred cows both figurative and literal are skewered in a series of hilarious and increasingly bawdy encounters between villagers who gossip, cheat, and steal, but also form a balanced, if chaotic, collectivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYesterdays\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the great lost English-language novels of the previous century--perhaps ahead of its own time upon its initial release, but sure to appeal to 21st-century audiences who will appreciate its startling prescience, linguistic inventiveness, as well as its bold singularity amid a canon glutted with paint-by-numbers respectability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eYesterdays\u003c\/i\u003e upends conventional narratives that find sexual liberation in the postindustrial city. Ladoo's agrarian villagers inhabit the fullness of their complex humanities in audaciously funny and often uncomfortable ways, and are radically at ease with their fluid sexual appetites. An under-appreciated gem, his novel is as much a testament to Ladoo's skillful observation and rendering of the world that surrounded him as it is to the value of being tellers of our own stories.\" - \u003cb\u003eAndil Gosine, author of \u003ci\u003eNature's Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Yesterdays is the novel, underappreciated on its initial release and since forgotten, that should have charted a deviant, audacious path through the staid self-seriousness of Canadian literature. Let's hope there's still time.\" - \u003cb\u003ePasha Malla, author of \u003ci\u003eAll You Can Kill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harold Sonny Ladoo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1552454789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781552454787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Harold Sonny Ladoo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44761418367231,"sku":"9781552454787","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b9e7a9a9-bee1-4668-8984-cb2b1fc4dd66.jpg?v=1706681268","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/yesterdays-harold-sonny-ladoo-9781552454787","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}