Reparations
Reparations is a novel about politics, justice and racism. This is a legal thriller written by Stephen Kimber and published by HarperCollins Canada in 2006.
Summary
This is the story of two boyhood friends, one black and one white who grew up and grew apart. One became the a promising young politician and is now a judge and the other boy was a black activist leader who became a lawyer specializing in real estate deals. Twenty-five years after the both fell in love with the same woman, the two men face each other in a courtroom. The story reveals secrets that both men have hidden from each other.
Author Bio
Stephen Kimber is an acclaimed, awardwinning writer, editor, broadcaster and professor in the School of Journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax. He is the author of five non-fiction titles, all set in Halifax, including Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War; "Not Guilty": The Trial of Gerald Regan; and Flight 111: The Tragedy of the Swissair Crash.
Critical Praise
"Stephen Kimber has woven a difficult story about racism and power politics in Nova Scotia with exceptional skill and sensitivity. Reparations is an important literary voyage into a largely unexplored region of the Canadian experience. It reads as fiction, but resonates as history." --Linden MacIntyre