Beyond the Limbo Silence Author:Nunez, Elizabeth When scholarship winner Sara Edgehill forsakes her native Trinidad for a Catholic women's college in Oshkosh, Wis., that has sought out "primitive people with raw talent," the civil rights struggle is at its peak. Haunted by the family legend of a great-grandmother who fell in love with a voodoo priest and went mad, emotionally frail Sara sees h... more »erself as vulnerable to mental illness. At school, the other two scholarship studentsAcheerful Angela Baboolalasingh, an Indian from British Guyana, and morose Courtney Adams from St. LuciaAbefriend her, but Sara soon feels isolated from the rest of the students, who are white and well-heeled. Sara's loneliness fades when she meets a handsome black law student named Sam Maxwell. He and Sara become lovers shortly before he decides to go to Mississippi as a disciple of Malcom X. History intrudes further when three of his co-workers disappear (the victims are the real-life Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney) and are feared murdered. Intrigued by Courtney's practice of obeah, her ancestral voodo tradition that uses sorcery and magic ritual, Sara agrees to enter a trance state in an attempt to find the bodies of the missing men. Nunez documents Sara's first year in the States with its heartbreaks and feelings of alienation, offering a convincing portrait of an earnest young woman struggling to reconcile her newly acquired political conscience with West Indies mysticism.« less
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