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The Kojo HandThe Kojo Hand is a novel about people pursuing their dreams--mainly Deanie Hollins, a New Jersey college student on Long Island, and her friend and out-of-the-classroom teacher, Kojo Dedu, a scholar from Ghana with a calling to produce positive social change. Deanie and Kojo pursue their dreams through a variety of encounters with a wide range of characters--unscrupulous advertising people, sexy construction workers, outrageous college faculty, artistic bartenders, shamefully bad poets, and creative African leaders. The story is told from the point of view of Deanie, a nineteen-year-old student at a fictional university on Long Island. The story takes place in the spring and summer of 1972 and moves forward through the intriguing questions and surprising answers raised by Kojo’s possible connection with a coup d’ etat in his homeland and by Deanie’s part-time work as a model in New York City. Selected KeywordsNorth Shore Long Island; Port Jefferson; Setauket; West End Café New York City; Newark New Jersey; Nixon; Vietnam; Trickster god; Kwame Nkrumah; Coup attempt Ghana; Modeling advertising; Artistic social change; Basketball; Industrial waste dumping; Truck crane construction equipment electrocution; Mad dog scare; Black Students Association college; Drinking; Shane for baby boomers (cover copy); Female narrator (cover copy). |
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