Saga Boy
My Life of Blackness and Becoming
Published on 5. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
344 pages
978-1-57131-199-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Singularly dazzling . . . A brilliant collage of the twenty-first century's most incredible memoirs." --KIESE LAYMON
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minneapolis
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57131-199-3 (9781571311993)
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Person
Antonio Michael Downing is an author, speaker, and musical artist. His memoir Saga Boy was called "singularly dazzling" by Kiese Laymon and "the triumph of Blackness everywhere" by Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner Ian Williams. He has been shortlisted for several awards including the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award, the 2021 Toronto Book Award, and the 2021 Speaker's Book Award. He is also the author of the children's picture book Stars in My Crown and his debut novel, Black Cherokee. He writes and performs music as John Orpheus. Raised in Trinidad, Toronto, and Brooklyn, Antonio Michael Downing now lives in Kitchener, Ontario.