✦ LIBER ✦

The Greats

✍ Scribed by Deborah Ellis

Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd; Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: en-CA
Weight: 78 KB
Category: Fiction
City: Georgetown (Guyana), Guyana--Georgetown
ISBN: 1773063898

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✦ Synopsis

Winning a national high-school geography competition should be the high point of Jomon's life. So why does he find himself running through the streets of Georgetown, Guyana, later that same night -- so angry and desperate? Why does he heave his hard-won medal through the front window of a liquor store?
Why does a teenaged boy decide life is not worth living?
Arrested by police and detained in a jail cell, Jomon is jolted out of his suicidal thoughts by the sudden appearance of another teenaged boy -- who claims to be his great-great-grandfather ...
Meanwhile, across town, the pride of Guyana, the life-sized exhibit of a giant prehistoric sloth named Gather, disappears overnight from the Guyana National Museum. While museum officials argue over who is responsible for the disappearance and who is in charge of getting the sloth back, only Mrs. Simson, a museum cleaner, seems to understand what needs to be done.
And so begins a strange and marvelous...

✦ Subjects

Guyana -- Georgetown

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