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The gospel according to Cane (2013)

de Courttia Newland

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Years after her son was abducted, a mother opens the door to a young man in this "unique and very moving novel" (Booklist).

Beverley Cottrell had a prestigious job, a beautiful husband and baby boy. It was all stolen from her one winter afternoon when her son, Malakay, was kidnapped from a parked car. Despite a media campaign, a police investigation, and the offer of a reward, Malakay was never found. Beverley's marriage dissolved, and her husband left England for the United States with a new wife.

Moving from the leafy suburbs to the inner city to reside in a west London housing project, Beverley cocooned herself in grief, growing more isolated with each passing year. After two decades she has given up any hope of finding closure, and teaches children at the local community center, bright kids thrown on society's scrap heap. Then a young man starts appearing wherever she goes. Beverley is convinced that he's stalking her. One dark evening he gets past her security door and calls through her letterbox. He tells her not to be scared. He says that he is Malakay, her son . . .

The Gospel According to Cane is an emotional, suspenseful novelâ??"part homecoming narrative in the vein of Toni Morrison's Beloved and part haunting tale of loss similar to Ernest Gaines's In My Father's House [that] will appeal to all lovers of literary fiction" (Library Journal).

"As Bev confesses in her journals to events that make her appear less than the fragile idealist she first appeared, Newland's tale gathers pace and tension. Violence becomes a real possibility. Happy ending or sad? Newland delivers a bit of both in this complex, cathartic portrait of an intelligent, if not always sensible woman, who refuses any longer to be defined by loss." â??Toronto Star

"A thrilling read, full of psychological tension and drama." â??Yvette Edwards, author of The Mother
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I really loved the writing style of this book. I was totally drawn into the story until the main character does something murdering her dog that made me lose all interest in her and the story. I thought the ending was really weak. But that may have been affected by my distain of that one story point and the way it was handled so lightly. ( )
  thelittlematchgirl | May 5, 2015 |
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I found this to be a slow and not a very interesting read. The story was disjointed and hard to follow at times. ( )
  marilynj65 | Mar 3, 2014 |
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The book did keep me reading. The characters were interesting, the boy Wills, was not entirely believable, and the protagonist had a fair number of psychological problems, so her story was a bit "out there" and lapsed into some quirky episodes. I dd want to know how it turned out, so I finished the book. It was a bit difficult to follow sometimes but still a good book and I would consider reading other things from this author. ( )
  bibliophileofalls | May 26, 2013 |
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I received this book through the Early Reviewer program.

While this book did capture my interest, I ultimately found it unsatisfying. It was just too disjointed and choppy for me. It was a very interesting premise but the execution did not live up to my expectations. ( )
  bookaholicgirl | May 14, 2013 |
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This is the story of a family broken apart by the kidnapping of a child, however, when the child mysteriously shows up years later it is not really the homecoming that was expected. Beverley and her husband lost their child 20 years ago to a kidnapping. It broke up their marriage and made Bev the person she was to become, but then 20 years later she is being followed by a young man who finally introduces himself as her long lost child. Bev thinks things could potentially be great but they aren't when family does not believe it, the man who supposedly kidnapped her son turns up dead and she hurts the only man who has been there for her for the last 20 years and hurts the kids who she teaches. A difficult read but a good book none the less. ( )
  Britt1075 | May 13, 2013 |
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Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML:

Years after her son was abducted, a mother opens the door to a young man in this "unique and very moving novel" (Booklist).

Beverley Cottrell had a prestigious job, a beautiful husband and baby boy. It was all stolen from her one winter afternoon when her son, Malakay, was kidnapped from a parked car. Despite a media campaign, a police investigation, and the offer of a reward, Malakay was never found. Beverley's marriage dissolved, and her husband left England for the United States with a new wife.

Moving from the leafy suburbs to the inner city to reside in a west London housing project, Beverley cocooned herself in grief, growing more isolated with each passing year. After two decades she has given up any hope of finding closure, and teaches children at the local community center, bright kids thrown on society's scrap heap. Then a young man starts appearing wherever she goes. Beverley is convinced that he's stalking her. One dark evening he gets past her security door and calls through her letterbox. He tells her not to be scared. He says that he is Malakay, her son . . .

The Gospel According to Cane is an emotional, suspenseful novelâ??"part homecoming narrative in the vein of Toni Morrison's Beloved and part haunting tale of loss similar to Ernest Gaines's In My Father's House [that] will appeal to all lovers of literary fiction" (Library Journal).

"As Bev confesses in her journals to events that make her appear less than the fragile idealist she first appeared, Newland's tale gathers pace and tension. Violence becomes a real possibility. Happy ending or sad? Newland delivers a bit of both in this complex, cathartic portrait of an intelligent, if not always sensible woman, who refuses any longer to be defined by loss." â??Toronto Star

"A thrilling read, full of psychological tension and drama." â??Yvette Edwards, author of The Mother

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