{"id":3950,"date":"2009-12-19T18:40:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T18:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2017-05-05T15:40:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:40:33","slug":"lara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3950","title":{"rendered":"Lara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\/ecs\/product\/lara-927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lara<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloodaxe Books<\/a><br \/>\n2009<br \/>\n192 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 1 85224 831 9<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevaristo.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernardine Evaristo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\/ecs\/product\/lara-927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\/content\/products\/2015-06\/l\/557b3b36b9957.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Lara<\/em> is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Bernardine Evaristo\u2019s own childhood and family history. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eponymous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eponymous<\/a> Lara is a mixed-race girl raised in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woolwich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Woolwich<\/a>, a white suburb of London, during the 60s and 70s. Her father, Taiwo, is Nigerian, and her mother, Ellen, is white British. They marry in the 1950s, in spite of fierce opposition from Ellen\u2019s family, and quickly produce eight children in ten years. Lara is their fourth child and we follow her journey from restricted childhood to conflicted early adulthood, and then from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nigeria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brazil<\/a> as she seeks to understand herself and her ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>The novel travels back over 150 years, seven generations and three continents of Lara\u2019s ancestry. It is the story of Irish Catholics leaving generations of rural hardship behind and ascending to a rigid middle class in England; of German immigrants escaping poverty and seeking to build a new life in 19th century London; and of proud <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yoruba_people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yorubas<\/a> enslaved in Brazil, free in colonial Nigeria and hopeful in post-war London. <em>Lara<\/em> explores the lives of those who leave one country in search of a better life elsewhere, but who end up struggling to be accepted even as they lay the foundations for their children and future generations.<\/p>\n<p>This is a new edition of Bernardine Evaristo\u2019s first novel <em>Lara<\/em>, rewritten and expanded by a third since its first publication in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lara is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Bernardine Evaristo\u2019s own childhood and family history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,83,21,414,8,15,10,20,25],"tags":[1345,1588,1691],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-family","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-uk","category-usa","category-women","tag-bernardine-evaristo","tag-bloodaxe-books","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","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=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53814,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/53814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}