Dark-Land

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This powerful memoir from poet Kevin Hart traces his difficult childhood as a "backward boy" in a poor part of London, a disorienting move to tropical Australia, and the secrets he and his family kept from one another. Dark-Land: Memoir of a Secret Childhood is Kevin Hart's searing, yet at timeshilarious, narrative of his first thirteen years. It is a story of survival andtransformation, of deception and recovery, and it passes from a frighteningchildhood in the East-End of London to a new and bewildering life insub-tropical Australia. Throughout, Hart draws on John Bunyan's evocation of "Dark-Land"in Pilgrim's Progress, the place Valiant-for-Truth leaves in orderto seek the Celestial City. But Dark-Land is no allegory. We see Hart'shidden inner life, his family's penchant for keeping secrets, and their illusions about the nature of their shared past. We see Hartgrow from being the despair of his teachers in a rough primaryschool to experiencing a "conversion" in a math class in Brisbane, >Writtenin elegant, lucid prose, without a trace of sentimentality, Dark-Land isa memoir of a working-class childhood, a narrative of a migrant, and the storyof a convert to Christianity.