Book Release Celebration with Erma Jacob

Save the date! The King's Anti Racism Working Group and The Write Place invite you to a book release celebration and a reading by Erma Jacob '94 author of A Dougla's Tale her memoir about growing up in Flanagin Town, Trinidad. This is a part of Black History Month 2022 celebrations. 

If you prefer to join the Zoom livestream, here’s the link: 

https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/j/91070474954 

After the reading, there will be book signing and refreshments in the Garron Lounge. There will be a few copies to buy. You can also buy copies of A Dougla's Tale on Amazon.

A Dougla's Tale
This book captures life on the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s. A collection of autobiographical tales is told from the perspective of the author as a young girl growing up in an inter-racial family in the idyllic, inter-cultural village of Flanagin Town in Central Trinidad. Life on the island is vividly described through the use of Trinidadian Creole and Standard English. The stories are told with humour as the illiterate, bold, clever, yet flawed matriarch of the family, Popo, works tirelessly to ensure that her children will have an education and an easier life than she had. The author captures the acceptance and respect the peoples of this diverse community have for each other and each other's cultures. Erma is a first-time author and has been living in Canada for the past 50 years. She worked at King's for over 40 years and has since retired.