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It’s not memory you need for telling this story, writes Russel Banks in the italicized introduction with which he begins Continental Drift: With a story like this, you want an accounting to occur, not a recounting, and a presentation, not a representation, which is why it’s told the way it’s told.This is an American story of the late twentieth century, writes Banks and he means it: this is a powerful novel of hope and loss set in the recession of the early 1980s, concerned with characters who could not be different but who both strive for something they feel is withing their reach: a different, better life.The novel begins with the introduction of Bob Dubois, an American everyman: 30 years of age, he has lived all his life in Cattamouth, New Hampshire, working as a repairman for the Abenaki Oil Company since he finished high school. At 30, Bob is married with two daughters and another child on the way. He lives a small duplex in a working class neighborhood and rents the back to four tenants (whom he calls hippies), drives an old Chevrolet and owns a 13 foot Boston whaler he built from kit. He still owes the Cattamouth Loan Company a little over $22,000 in payments for the house, car and boat. A question haunts Bob Dubois, which is relevant to many to us: I am smart - why I am not rich?We Have a good life, his wife tells him, but Bob longs for more: he wants out of the small New Hampshire town with its snowny hopelesness, where nothing ever seems to change; he longs for a slice of the American Dream for himself. When his brother offers him a job with Florida, Bob thinks that this is his chance to start again. A new hope waits in the unexplored land down south, where ripe oranges hangs from trees all year round and and success wait for those willing to grasp them.Vanise Dorsinville also longs for a better life: a native resident of Haiti, she longs to escape its instability, poverty and violence, and secure a better future for herself and her baby. She saves up enough money to pay the coyotes to smuggle her to America, the promised land where Haitians have been taken to and prospered: she is aware that the journey is dangerous but is willing to take the risk to get to the city of Miami, where there is a Haitian community which will help her accomodate and start a new life.For Bob, a native New Englander, Florida is also like a different part of the world: althought still a part of his homeland, The United States, it is so far removed from New Hampshire both geographically and culturally that it might as well be a separate country. Having lived in homogenously white New Hampshire all his life, Bob experiences a true culture shock when he sees so many people of color: hundreds of them, thousands!. In Florida it is Bob and his family who are seen as curiosities, white folks and strangers. Elaine, Bobs wife, is amazed, and asks: All those black people working in the fields and everything, they’re not really Americans, right?, to which he replies: I’ve read they’re from Cuba and those kinds of places.Banks Florida is a place where people wake up from their dreams, and not fulfill them: as Bob and his family drive through central Florida, their first reaction is of disappointment: they keep their eyes away from the horizon to avoid seeing the flat landscape, spotted with endless franchised stores and restaurants, lonely and isolated neighborhoods which turn into miles of grids of trailer parks, automobile graveyards, vast and disordered, dreary, colorless and indestructible.. As they see more of Florida, the realization that they no longer can return to New Hampshire fills them with fear, as they know that this is their home now. A place where people play dirty to get rich quickly, where violence is commonplace and crime prospers. Bob has made the bed, and he must now sleep in it: as the novel progresses it becomes obvious that he has no succesfully transformed his life but merely lost his past, the job and posessions which gave him a sense of status, in exchange for the life which is slowly spiralling out of his hands among the palm trees and scorching sun.Right in the introduction Banks writes that the sad story of Robert Raymond Dubois will end in the back alleys of Miami, on a February morning in 1981. The ending is indeed powerful and striking, if not unexpected, but the novel is all about the journey: about Bobs life disintegrating further and further, and Vanises hopes for reaching Miami, and their lifelines intersecting. Banks develops Bobs character with significantly more detail than he grants to Vanise - he seems to try to make up for that with references to Haitian culture and customs, of which there are plenty, but Vanise herself is more of a personification of the general immigrant dream. As he admits in his epilogue, the purpose of the book is to destroy the world as it is; this is a strongly ideological work, with an important message. Therefore, his characters never seem to not be controlled by the fate predestined for them by their creator: Bobs life goes out of control almost too neatly in its tragedy, and Vanise is almost saintlike in her complacency: her only active decision seems to be the escape from Haiti, and she remains resigned throughout the rest of the novelNevertheless, this is a powerful and important novel about the failure of the American dream and the struggle of the working class, and made me want to read more of Bankss work. Bob Dubois is a fragile character who seems to have been already broken and put back together from different pieces of glass, each shard reflecting on us with our own faces. Like continets we drift and dislodge, and Bankss novel made me grieve for his characters, which are but images of many contemporary lives to whom no one will ever give a platform to voice their woes before they wither away into eternity. With this novel Banks lets them be heard, and they speak loudly and clearly.
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