
From the author of Home to Harlem, a novel about dreams, diaspora, and drifting back home Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known to his drifter cohorts on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as "Banjo," passes his days panhandeling and dreaming of starting his own...




Although Claude Mackay is probably best known for the novel Banana Bottom, many rate this European set work as its equal. Centred around a group of beached black American and Caribbean sailors adrift in that fleshpot of commerce and racism, Marseilles, it presents an extraordinarily...