Spotlight: A Place Called Schugara by Joe English

Wednesday, July 11, 2018





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Title: A Place Called Schugara 

Series: Stand-Alone

By Joe English

Genre: literary fiction (multicultural) Publication Date: June 22, 2018 by Line by Lion Publications

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A Place Called Schugara
Synopsis
A Place Called Shugara is the story of three Americans who come together on the Caribbean island Mabouhey at a place called Schugara. Travers Landeman, an Ohio businessman, escapes a failing marriage and a failing business.  Mourning the suicide of his nephew, he flees to Mabouhey, where he fakes his death. Joe Rogers, owner of The Yellow Harp bookstore in Chicago, leads a group of amateur archeologists to Mabouhey. He finds a pre-Columbian treasure, a jeweled mask dating to the Arawak era.    Albert Sidney McNab, a private investigator, is hired by the Atlantis Fidelity Insurance Company to search for Travers.
Travers discovers his nephew’s diary, which tells of his nephew’s sexual abuse by his parish priest, Father Art.  He feels obligated to return to his former life to bring Father Art to justice.  Joe, who has his own axe to grind with the Atlantis Fidelity Insurance Company, persuades Travers that it is better to leave that task to Albert.  Albert consents, for the love he has found on Mabouhey, a woman named Esmerelda, matters more than the money he may or may not get from Atlantis Fidelity.   Albert, Esmerelda, and the mask go to the United States.  Father Art is beaten to death in his jail cell while awaiting trial.   As United Nations Ambassador of its newest member nation, the Commonwealth of the Island of Mabouhey, Mrs. Esmerelda  McNab has the mask auctioned at Sotheby's, despite protestors from Columbia University who denounce the sale as "cultural genocide.












Joe English






Along with William Carlos Williams, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, and Victor Cruz, Joe English is a proud son of Paterson, New Jersey (with one "t.") He came of age in Mexico City, Mexico. He worked as a ranch hand at the Wild Horn Ranch in Florissant, Colorado. He has a B. A. cum laude from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and an M. A. from Rice University in Houston, Texas. English is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He has lived for 48 years in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago’s west side. When Austin resegregated from 100% Caucasian to 95+% African-American in 1970-71, English was one of a handful of residents who cast down their buckets with their new neighbors. As a minority in a majority minority community, he has a unique perspective on the state of urban America. English was featured in a 60 Minutes broadcast as a first hand witness to neighborhood resegregation in Chicago. He was a professor at Triton College in River Grove, Illinois, for sixteen years. He founded Oak Park Real Estate in 1984, which provided decent, safe, and affordable housing, primarily in the Austin neighborhood. At its peak, Oak Park Real Estate managed 900 residential apartments.  He still maintains a residence in Austin but now spends much of his time in Sosua, Dominican Republic, founded by Jewish refugees in the late 1930’s who were fleeing Hitler's tyranny. “I live in two soulful places,” English says. "I am doubly blessed.” English’s writings have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Reader and Co-Existence, the literary journal which featured the works of Henry Miller. His most recent publication, the short story Mrs. Padgett's Pearls, was selected by Zimbell House Publishing for the anthology After Effects.


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15 comments:

  1. This looks like an interesting read.

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  2. This one sounds intense and active

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    1. I know right I thought the same thing about this book, thank you so much for stopping by my blog my friend. 😊

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  3. Did I read that right - that the author is local to us in NJ?! That’s cool! Great spotlight :)

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    1. Yes you read that right Nikki isn’t it awesome that he is from NJ, thank you so much for stopping by my blog my friend. 😊

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  4. Sounds rather full on. Not sure it would be a book for me.

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  5. Sounds like an interesting read. Great overview!

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  6. I'm so use to reading about the a group of women. It's intriguing that this one is about a group of male and how their lives intertwine. Thank you for sharing. =)

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  7. This book looks like fun. I have been dreaming of escaping to a tropical island!

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    1. I know right it does looks and sounds like a really fun book, thank you so much for stopping by my blog my friend. 😊

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  8. Thanks, Katiria for shining a spotlight on A PLACE CALLED SCHUGARA. As Zero Washington Roosevelt Lincoln, one of SCHUGARA'S characters would say, you are "Ace Boon Coon!" Best, Joe English

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