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Tom Gattens The Kojo Hand is a novel about people pursuing their dreams--mainlya young woman in college and her friend and out-of-the classroom teacher KojoDedu, a scholar from Ghana with a calling to produce positive socialchange.
The story is told from the pointof view of Deanie Hollins, a nineteen-year-old student at a fictionaluniversity on Long Island. The storytakes place in the spring and summer of 1972 and moves forward throughquestions and answers raised by Kojos possible connection with a coup d etat in his homeland and byDeanies part-time work as a model in New York City.
JD Reed, Senior Editor, Time Magazine, and author of Free Fall and Pursuit of D. B. Cooper, says of the manuscript: The Kojo Hand is a wonderful novel. Its a kind of Shane for baby-boomers with a neat twist. Making teacher and student different sexes is a fine touch. Kojo is a truly magnificent character. I wish Id known him. The cast is great.
John Stewart, Professor ofAfrican-American and African Studies, Department of Anthropology, University ofCalifornia, Davis, and author of Last Cool Days, Curving Road, Forthe Ancestors, and Looking for Josephine, says of the manuscript: . . . the range of experiences and the ways the characters persist in their worldare handled with considerable insight.There are some nice things there.
Dr. Marcellette G. Williams,Interim Chancellor and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, TheUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst, says of the manuscript: Gatten''shandling of his female narrator''s point of view is deft and refreshingly"faithful to the grain" (to borrow from Kojo Dedus phrasing), as ishis handling of the narrator''s feelings about love in her relationship with herlover, managing even to "incorporate the knots into the overalldesign."
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The Kojo Hand A NOVEL BY TOM GATTEN
Im very impressed with the vivid characterization here. From the self-conscious, guarded, headstrong Deanie, the hilariously crass but needy Barett, to the big-hearted Zerk, tortured by his past, and the quietly noble Kojo, each character is unique, consistent, and nicely layered. Deanies struggle to discover and stand by beliefs in an adult world that is constantly asking her to compromise is especially engaging. I also admire the moral force underlying the narrative: The Kojo Hand makes it clear that longingwhether for recognition, sex, fame, a sense of belongingcan lead to destruction and isolation when people let their desires blindly motivate them. The Kojo Hand is a giving and humane novel, exploring interesting and important human problems with a gentle hand. Writers Digest
Mapper of Mists POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS
I think Tom Gattens Mapper of Mists is a remarkable book of poems. For years Ive been familiar with Gattens work and here we have it together with a great deal of grace, intensity and energy. Jim HarrisonAuthor of Letters to Yesenin, Legends of the Fall, Dalva, The Woman Lit by Fireflies, Returning to Earth, The River Swimmer
The Bamboushay Steel Band RECORDING
Tom Gatten played with The Bamboushay Steel Band for two years. Based in East Lansing, the band played in places ranging from the original Hamtramck High School to the famous Gate of Horn club in Chicago. In 1962, National Educational Television produced, broadcast, and rebroadcast a half-hour show by the band. The bands Folkways Records LP Album #FS3835 was reissued on Compact Disc by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 2001 and is also available on iTunes.