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Cover: 9781787333468 | I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be | A Memoir in Eight Lives | Grant

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Beschreibung

A memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of West Indian British experience***A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***'Grant is a natural storyteller... Compelling and charming'BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other'Grant's most revealing work'NEW STATESMAN'I'm black, so you don't have to be,' Colin Grant's uncle Castus used to tell him. For Colin, born in Britain to Jamaican parents, things were supposed to be different. If he worked hard and became a doctor, he was told, his race would become invisible. The reality turned out to be very different. This is a memoir told through a series of intimate intergenerational portraits. We meet Grant's mother Ethlyn, disappointed by working-class life in Luton, who dreams of returning to Jamaica; his father Bageye, a maverick and small-time ganja dealer with a violent temper; his sister Selma, who refashioned herself as an African princess. Each character we meet is navigating their own path. Each life informs Grant's own shifting sense of his identity. Collectively these stories build into a poignant and insightful testimony of the black British experience - an unforgettable exploration of family, identity, race and generational change.

Über den Autor

Colin Grant is an author, historian and critic. He has written acclaimed biographies of the Wailers and of Marcus Garvey. Bageye at the Wheel, his memoir of growing up in a Caribbean family in 1970s Luton, was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize. His history of epilepsy, A Smell of Burning, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. His most recent book, Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. He is director of WritersMosaic and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Biographien
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	256
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781787333468
ISBN-10:	1787333469
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Grant, Colin
Hersteller:	Vintage Publishing
Maße:	220 x 142 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Colin Grant
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.01.2023
Gewicht:	0,366 kg

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Über den Autor

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Biographien
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	256
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781787333468
ISBN-10:	1787333469
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Grant, Colin
Hersteller:	Vintage Publishing
Maße:	220 x 142 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Colin Grant
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.01.2023
Gewicht:	0,366 kg