Join the Ohio Center for the Book at Clevo Books (1026 Euclid Ave), a downtown Cleveland bookstore specializing in translated works of literature, for a discussion on Comrade Papa by GauZ' (translated from the French by Frank Wynne). 

From the publisher: "Mourning the recent deaths of his parents, a young white man in nineteenth-century France joins a colonial expedition attempting to establish trading routes on the Ivory Coast and finds himself caught between factions who disagree on everything—except their shared loathing of the British. A century later, a young Black boy born in Amsterdam gives his account, complete with youthful malapropisms, of his own voyage to the Ivory Coast, and his upbringing by his father, Comrade Papa, who teaches him to always fight 'the yolk of capitalism.' In exuberant, ingenious prose, GauZ’ superimposes their intertwined stories, looking across centuries and continents to reveal the long arc of African colonization."