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  • Pourin’ Down Rain

  • A Black Woman Claims Her Place in the Canadian West
  • Written by: Cheryl Foggo
  • Narrated by: Karen Robinson
  • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Pourin’ Down Rain

Written by: Cheryl Foggo
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The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo’s landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairies

Cheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in Calgary, a time when a Black family walking down the street still drew stares from everyone they passed. During her childhood, a community of extended family and friends, with roots in the Black migration of 1910 across the western provinces, worked together to provide intervals of respite from racism. But as an adolescent, Cheryl struggled to understand the negative attitudes towards blackness she and her family encountered, and how she was made to feel an outsider in the only place she ever knew as home. As she explores her ancestry, what comes to light gives her the confidence to claim her rightful place in the Canadian west as a proud Black woman. This beautiful, moving work celebrates the Black experience and Black resiliency on the prairies.

Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country’s greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.
©2019 Cheryl Foggo (P)2019 Bespeak Audio Editions
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Life in Calgary

What a lovely book full of family history and love.it was nice to hear that the family intergrated into Calgary Society Welles

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What a delightful biography! Amusing and heartfelt. Equally informative about Canadian black history. I am especially enjoyed the author’s footnotes about her observations today on what she originally wrote.

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