The Day I Fell Off My Island

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<p><i>The Day I Fell Off My Island</i> tells the story of Erna Mullings, a teenage Jamaican girl uprooted from her island following the sudden death of her beloved grandmother.</p> <p>When Erna is sent to England to be reunited with her siblings, she dreads leaving behind her elderly grandfather, and the only life she has ever known. A new future unfolds, in a strange country and with a mother she barely knows. The next decade will be a complex journey of estrangement and arrival, new beginnings and the uncovering of long-buried secrets.</p> <p>A psychologist and former social worker, Yvonne Bailey-Smith, explains:</p> <p><i>'As an immigrant child, I often wished that someone had been able to take me aside and explain to me that leaving everything I knew to go on a so-called adventure to somewhere way beyond my imagination was going cause me an unimaginable sense of loss and sadness. I also wish that the same person had been there to reassure me that I would survive and even flourish, given half a chance. My work and conversations with children, young people and adults, as well as with many friends, have given me a unique insight into the travails of people who have experienced things for which they felt utterly unprepared at the time.'</i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781838386047

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

194 x 126 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

New Internationalist