Lara | 
#12Booksof2022 day 2
One of Evaristo‘s early novels about her mother, her mother‘s family and her father.
Andrew65 Sounds brilliant. 2y
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#12Booksof2022 day 2
One of Evaristo‘s early novels about her mother, her mother‘s family and her father.
pickFrom the blurb: “Lara is a semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Barnardine Evaristo‘s own childhood and family history.”
About how it is growing up mixed-raced, how it is to start again in a new country.
This is a rewritten and expanded edition of her first novel.
I can‘t imagine ever having a conversation like this one, but I know many do.
If you‘re happy with yourself, something or someone will be sure to tell you that you shouldn‘t be.
pickA memoir in verse about growing up in London as part of a mixed family in the 1960‘s and ‘70‘s. Complex, difficult, and inspiring.
Three books in one. Expatriation and assimilation, maintaining your culture when the culture you live in doesn‘t like what you represent, and coming of age during tumult and societal change.
#memoir
