Going Back Home
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ISBN10: 148021289X
ISBN13: 9781480212893
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 14 2012
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781480212893
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 14 2012
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Set in England in the 1980s, Going Back Home is a powerful story of sibling love and rivalry, religious fundamentalism and alienation.Joy and her sister Esmine were born and brought up in England to Jamaican immigrant parents.Joy grew up to accept and be impassioned by her father's view that England could never be home for them. Both her and her father long to return to Jamaica.Esmine, on the other hand, shares her mother's views that they have earned their position in England, and that England will always be their home. Can the family survive the pressures of divided loyalties, distortion and displacement?
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