Khadiyah's Song Book Review

                                                           
KHADIYAH’S SONG

By Angela Mata

A Review

June 7, 2012

     Stated in her writer’s mission, young burgeoning artist, Angela N. Mata, seeks to “[provide] entertainment that reflects positive images of persons of African descent in American publishing and to encourage further study of the history, culture and traditions of the African Diaspora”.   In her miniature narrative, KHADIYAH’S SONG, Mata writes strongly from the comfortable ownership of her personal ideology.  She becomes the reader’s docent to the culture and ethos of an extended Jamaican family uprooted and transplanted into mainland  urban America.  The story’s tension builds and releases as the young ballerina, Khadiyah, pirouettes through unfolding events that unlock her family’s burdensome secret while  staging the epiphany of her past, present and future.  Clearly anticipating the reader element unfamiliar with Jamaican idiom, Mata sources a glossary to interpret her saucy ethnic dialogue.  This   a clever novella driven through tender passion and layered suspense. 

Alice H. Martin –Retired Public School Teacher

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