EAN: 9781787333468

IM BLACK SO YOU DON HAVE TO BE - COLIN GRANT G...

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.

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