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Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
Caryl Phillips's The Lost Child is a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it. At its center is Monica Johnsonâcut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreignerâand her bitter struggleâŠ
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Caryl Phillipsâs The Lost Child is a poignant novel that brings together a rewriting of Emily BrontĂ«âs Wuthering Heights with a reimagining of Jean Rhysâs Wide Sargasso Sea, as well as a quick visit to the BrontĂ« Parsonage in Haworth. In a bookended narrative, Philips gives us the backstory of how Heathcliff came to be in Liverpool before being taken to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw. In the centre, however, is the story of Monica Johnson, a young woman living in Windrush Britain whose marriage to Julius, an African-Caribbean graduate with whom she has two children, causes a fractureâŠ
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