The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia: A Novel
By Mary Helen Stefaniak
Read by Robynn Rodriguez
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Narrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a new schoolteacher turns Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss Grace Spivey is a well-traveled young woman who believes in field trips, Arabian costumes, and reading aloud from her ten-volume set of The Thousand Nights and a Night. The real trouble begins when she decides to revive the annual town festival as an exotic Baghdad bazaar. Miss Spivey and her project transform the lives of everyone around her: Gladys’ older brother Force (with his movie-star looks), their pregnant sister May (a gifted storyteller herself), and especially the Cailiffs’ African American neighbor, young Theo Boykin, whose creative genius becomes the key to a colorful, hidden history of the South. Populated by unforgettable characters—including three impressive camels—The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia rides a magic carpet from a segregated schoolroom in Georgia to the banks of the Tigris—and back again—in an entrancing feat of storytelling.
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Summary
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Winner of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize for Fiction
Selected for the September 2010 Indie Next List
Narrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a new schoolteacher turns Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss Grace Spivey is a well-traveled young woman who believes in field trips, Arabian costumes, and reading aloud from her ten-volume set of The Thousand Nights and a Night. The real trouble begins when she decides to revive the annual town festival as an exotic Baghdad bazaar. Miss Spivey and her project transform the lives of everyone around her: Gladys’ older brother Force (with his movie-star looks), their pregnant sister May (a gifted storyteller herself), and especially the Cailiffs’ African American neighbor, young Theo Boykin, whose creative genius becomes the key to a colorful, hidden history of the South.
Populated by unforgettable characters—including three impressive camels—The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia rides a magic carpet from a segregated schoolroom in Georgia to the banks of the Tigris—and back again—in an entrancing feat of storytelling.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Reviews
Reviews
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Almost amazing!
- I almost loved this novel. Unfortunately, the author chose to spend the last third of the book or so telling a story within a story, and then a story within a story within a story...and I really didn't care about those stories. I was far more interested in what was happening with the main story, with the characters I'd been growing attached to. Still, I recommend this book, if only for the first two thirds. And maybe everyone else will be really into the other stories Stefaniak tells. She's a good writer, for sure, and I did enjoy Robynn Rodriguez's narration.
Details
Details
Available Formats : | Digital Download, Digital Rental, CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Fiction |
Runtime: | 14.65 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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