{"id":16417,"date":"2011-09-21T22:53:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T22:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16417"},"modified":"2011-09-21T22:54:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T22:54:23","slug":"the-drift-latitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16417","title":{"rendered":"The Drift Latitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Drift Latitudes<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chatto & Windus<\/a>
\n2006-02-02
\n320 pages
\nISBN-13: 978-0701178222<\/p>\n

Jamal Mahjoub<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Liverpool<\/a>, 1958, and German<\/a> refugee and inventor Ernst Frager is in search of a sense of belonging. What he finds is an unusual nightclub on the Merseyside<\/a> docks, and Miranda: hat-check girl, aspiring jazz singer and daughter of West Indian immigrants. Their doomed love affair will have repercussions for the children waiting for Ernst back in London<\/a>, but also for the daughter Miranda gives birth to. Almost half a century later, Jade finds herself grappling with the very questions that drove her father into the arms of her mother, and realising that a successful career cannot define an identity; nor can you separate your existence from all the many other stories connected to it …<\/p>\n

Like the jazz that snakes its way though this beautiful novel, The Drift Latitudes<\/em> is about how we improvise our lives and the chances we take. From the Nubian boy who flees the tedium of home to find the bright lights of New York’s<\/a> jazz scene, to Ernst’s daughter Rachel who turns her back on Europe and follows her husband to the Sudan<\/a>, it is about the movement of people around our globe and the interdependence of our dreams. Awash with memorable characters, filled with unputdownable stories, this is a brilliantly intricate novel that lingers in the mind long after its final note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Drift Latitudes Chatto & Windus 2006-02-02 320 pages ISBN-13: 978-0701178222 Jamal Mahjoub Liverpool, 1958, and German refugee and inventor Ernst Frager is in search of a sense of belonging. What he finds is an unusual nightclub on the Merseyside docks, and Miranda: hat-check girl, aspiring jazz singer and daughter of West Indian immigrants. Their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15],"tags":[7586,7585],"class_list":["post-16417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-chatto-windus","tag-jamal-mahjoub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}