Dame Lorraine
In a modest Harlem apartment in the 1980s, an elderly Caribbean couple await the return of their only surviving son after a long prison sentence; their family has lost all its other sons.
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In a modest Harlem apartment in the 1980s, an elderly Caribbean couple await the return of their only surviving son after a long prison sentence; their family has lost all its other sons.
In 1927 San Juan Hill, Caribbean immigrant Joseph Barton, a follower of Marcus Garvey, discovers that his daughter Annetta loves Eustace Baylor, an uneducated African-American man from the rural South. Their relationship exposes conflicts between Caribbean immigrants and African Americans.
In 1954 Queens, a Caribbean-American family gathers for the fiftieth birthday of Jared Philibert, a paralyzed patriarch confined to an iron lung. A friend brings rum that acts like a truth serum, bringing concealed tensions and questions about euthanasia to the surface among Jared and his family.
During a Harlem funeral service in the 1960s, mourners reflect on their relationships with the deceased patriarch.
On a fictional Caribbean island in the 1890s, a sorceress falls in love with a shallow womanizer in Carter’s retelling of the Medea story.
In a modest Harlem apartment in the 1980s, an elderly Caribbean couple await the return of their only surviving son after a long prison sentence; their family has lost all its other sons.
In 1927 San Juan Hill, Caribbean immigrant Joseph Barton, a follower of Marcus Garvey, discovers that his daughter Annetta loves Eustace Baylor, an uneducated African-American man from the rural South. Their relationship exposes conflicts between Caribbean immigrants and African Americans.
In 1954 Queens, a Caribbean-American family gathers for the fiftieth birthday of Jared Philibert, a paralyzed patriarch confined to an iron lung. A friend brings rum that acts like a truth serum, bringing concealed tensions and questions about euthanasia to the surface among Jared and his family.
During a Harlem funeral service in the 1960s, mourners reflect on their relationships with the deceased patriarch.
On a fictional Caribbean island in the 1890s, a sorceress falls in love with a shallow womanizer in Carter’s retelling of the Medea story.