{"product_id":"9781443468367","title":"We Rip the World Apart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sweeping multi-generational story about motherhood, race and secrets in the lives of three women, perfect for readers of Brit Bennett’s \u003cem\u003eThe Vanishing Half\u003c\/em\u003e and David Chariandy’s \u003cem\u003eBrother\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen 24-year-old Kareela discovers she’s pregnant with a child she isn’t sure she wants, it amplifies her struggle to understand her place in the world as a woman who is half-Black and half-white, yet feels neither.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer mother, Evelyn, fled to Canada with her husband and their first-born child, Antony, during the politically charged Jamaican Exodus of the 1980s, only to realize they’d come to a place where Black men are viewed with suspicion—a constant and pernicious reality Evelyn watches her husband and son navigate daily.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYears later, in the aftermath of Antony’s murder by the police, Evelyn’s mother-in-law, Violet, moves in, offering young Kareela a link to the Jamaican heritage she has never fully known. Despite Violet’s efforts to help them through their grief, the traumas they carry grow into a web of secrets that threatens the very family they all hold so dear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack in the present, Kareela, prompted by fear and uncertainty about the new life she carries, must come to terms with the mysteries surrounding her family’s past and the need to make sense of both her identity and her future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeaving the women’s stories across multiple timelines, \u003cem\u003eWe Rip the World Apart \u003c\/em\u003ereveals the ways that simple choices, made in the heat of the moment and with the best of intentions, can have deeper repercussions than could ever have been imagined, especially when people remain silent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charlene Carr (CA)","offers":[{"title":"HarperCollins |  Paperback \/ softback | Rough front |  2024-01-30","offer_id":44662635135231,"sku":"9781443468367","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_95c9055d-b9ba-483f-96dd-755a3b943c75.jpg?v=1704555434","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781443468367","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}