While masterfully incorporating elements of the world’s oldest and greatest stories, the end result is a bold contemplation of the origins of America. Footed in both myth and modernity, Calvin Baker crafts a rich, intricate and moving novel, with meditations on God, responsibility, and familial legacies. For one hundred years, the Merian family struggles against the natural (and occasionally supernatural) world, colonial politics, the injustices of slavery, the Revolutionary War and questions of fidelity and the heart. Dominion (2006 edition) Open Library It looks like you're offline. Jasper is the patriarch, freed from bondage, who manages against all odds to build a thriving estate with his new wife and two sons one enslaved, the other free. Dominion by Calvin Baker, 2006, Grove Press, Distributed by Publishers Group West edition, in English - 1st ed. Dominion tells the story of the Merian family who, at the close of the seventeenth century, settle in the wilderness of the Carolinas.

Now, with Dominion, Baker has written a lush, incantatory novel about three generations of an. What is here exhibited of eternal dominion cannot be. Since his second novel, Once Two Heroes, Baker has continued to be acclaimed by the major media from the Los Angeles Times to Esquire. for Calvin the Old Testament is emphatically Scripture for the. Now, with Dominion, Baker has written a lush, incantatory novel about three generations of an African American family in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War. With Calvin Baker’s first novel, Naming The New World, he was named a Notable First Novelist by Time magazine. Since his second novel, Once Two Heroes, Baker has continued to be acclaimed by the major media from the Los Angeles Times to Esquire. With Calvin Baker’s first novel, Naming The New World, he was named a Notable First Novelist” by Time magazine. With Calvin Baker’s first novel, Naming The New World, he was named a Notable First Novelist by Time magazine.

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