First Title value, for Searching:
Jamaica road
First Author value, for Searching:
Smith, Lisa (author), author.
General Note:
"A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Format:
Libros
Abstract:
"A transformative love story about two best friends who fall for each other, fall apart, and try to find their way back together in their tight-knit British-Jamaican community"-- Provided by publisher.
South London, 1981. Daphne is the only Black girl in her class. All she wants is to keep her head down, preferably in a book. The easiest way to survive is to go unnoticed. Daphne's attempts at invisibility are upended when a boy named Connie Small arrives from Jamaica. Connie is the opposite of small in every way: lanky, outgoing, and unapologetically himself. Daphne tries to keep her distance, but Connie is magnetic, and they form an intense bond. As they navigate growing up in a volatile, rapidly changing city, their families become close, and their friendship begins to shift into something more complicated. When Connie reveals that he and his mother 'nuh land'--meaning they're in England illegally--Daphne realizes that she is dangerously entangled in Connie's fragile home life. Soon, long-buried secrets in both families threaten to tear them apart permanently.
Tema:
| Best friends -- Fiction. |
| Illegal immigration -- England -- Fiction. |
| First loves -- Fiction. |
| Jamaicans -- Fiction. |
| Family secrets -- Fiction. |
| Noncitizens -- Fiction. |
| Teenage girls, Black -- Fiction. |
| Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. |
| Amis -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
| Immigration clandestine -- Angleterre -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
| Premier amour -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
| Jamaïquains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
| Secrets de famille -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
| Adolescentes noires -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
| London (England) -- History -- 1951- -- Fiction. |
| Londres (Angleterre) -- Histoire -- 1951- -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
| Bildungsromans. |
| Historical fiction. |
| Romance fiction. |
| Social problem fiction. |
| Domestic fiction. |
| Novels. |
| Romans. |
Summary:
"A transformative love story about two best friends who fall for each other, fall apart, and try to find their way back together in their tight-knit British-Jamaican community"--
South London, 1981. Daphne is the only Black girl in her class. All she wants is to keep her head down, preferably in a book. The easiest way to survive is to go unnoticed. Daphne's attempts at invisibility are upended when a boy named Connie Small arrives from Jamaica. Connie is the opposite of small in every way: lanky, outgoing, and unapologetically himself. Daphne tries to keep her distance, but Connie is magnetic, and they form an intense bond. As they navigate growing up in a volatile, rapidly changing city, their families become close, and their friendship begins to shift into something more complicated. When Connie reveals that he and his mother 'nuh land'--meaning they're in England illegally--Daphne realizes that she is dangerously entangled in Connie's fragile home life. Soon, long-buried secrets in both families threaten to tear them apart permanently.
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