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challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
'If only you chose home.' ‐ Sanya
Escoffery's stories are smart, realized, and stunning. They are at their core stories for so many Jamaican families, mired in colourism and classism(racism), fidelity, freedom of self, and self-actualization. Steeped in obvious experiences, each story traces the movement of this not-Black but maybe-Black family in a country where everyone is labelled.
Trelawny acts as the locus for this novel, born to Jamaican parents who yearn for the island they were able to flee when violence erupts, he struggles to cement himself within a cultural structure that seems determined to pigeonhole him.
Escoffery explores the many ways in which power dynamics exist and shift between members and within the family structure, how acceptance and identity can affect self-worth and self-actualization and determine the very ways we move through relationships.
'But answers in the mouths of the untrustworthy are worthless.' ‐ Trelawny
Escoffery's stories are smart, realized, and stunning. They are at their core stories for so many Jamaican families, mired in colourism and classism(racism), fidelity, freedom of self, and self-actualization. Steeped in obvious experiences, each story traces the movement of this not-Black but maybe-Black family in a country where everyone is labelled.
Trelawny acts as the locus for this novel, born to Jamaican parents who yearn for the island they were able to flee when violence erupts, he struggles to cement himself within a cultural structure that seems determined to pigeonhole him.
Escoffery explores the many ways in which power dynamics exist and shift between members and within the family structure, how acceptance and identity can affect self-worth and self-actualization and determine the very ways we move through relationships.
'But answers in the mouths of the untrustworthy are worthless.' ‐ Trelawny
Content Warnings
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Classism, Abandonment, Trafficking, and Racism
Minor: Murder and Child death
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