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The Second Life of Samuel Tyne
Ebony, Nov, 2004
THE SECOND LIFE OF SAMUEL TYNE (HarperCollins Publishers, $24.95) by Esi Edugyan is a haunting, strikingly mature debut novel by a young Canadian writer of Ghanaian descent. The story focuses on the lives of a peculiar family of West African origin as they strive to create a new life in a small Alberta town once settled by freed slaves.
A gentle, intelligent man, Samuel Tyne immigrated to Canada with his uncle Jacob and has spent 15 years working as a government bean counter. When Jacob dies, leaving Samuel a house outside the small town of Aster, the 40-year-old man sees an opportunity to reject his soul-destroying job and stale life in Calgary, and move his family to the hamlet on the prairie.
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