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02367aam a2200325 i 4500 001 A784622C122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220802012256 008 210505t20222022cau b 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1635901626 020 $a 9781635901627 035 $a (OCoLC)1249629270 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d EXR $d SILO 100 1 $a Soobramanien, Natasha, $e author. 245 10 $a Diego Garcia : $b a novel / $c Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams. 264 1 $a South Pasadena, CA : $b Semiotext(e), $c [2022] 300 $a 263 pages ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "Sad and funny and bitter and true, a novel about grief, discovering your own story, and trying to listen for those stories that are not yours to tell. August 2014. Two friends, writers Damaris Caleemootoo and Oliver Pablo Herzberg, arrive in Edinburgh from London, the city that killed Daniel--his brother, her frenemy and loved by them both. Every day is different but the same. Trying to get to the library, they get distracted by bickering--will it rain or not and what should they do about their tanking bitcoin?--in the end failing to write or resist the sadness which follows them as they drift around the city. On such a day they meet Diego, a poet. They learn that Diego's mother was from the Chagos Archipelago, that she and her community were forced to leave their ancestral islands by soldiers in 1973 to make way for a military base. They become obsessed with this notorious episode in British history and the continuing resistance of the Chagossian people, and feel urged to write in solidarity. But how to share a story that is not theirs to tell? Sad, funny and angry, this collaborative fiction builds on the true fact of another: a collaborative fiction created by the British and US governments to dispossess a people of their homeland."-- $c Amazon.com. 650 0 $a Authors $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Friendship $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Chagossians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Population transfers $x Chagossians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Military occupation $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Edinburgh (Scotland) $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Williams, Luke, $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20221203065846.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A784622C122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search