Title from container. Compact discs. Read by the author.
Summary:
Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georgina's insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgment of her difference or access to black culture, she lacked the coordinates to make sense of who she was. It was only after her father's death that Georgina began to unravel the truth about her parentage and the racial identity that she had been denied. She fled from England and the turmoil of her home-life to live in black communities around the globe, the US, the UK, Nicaragua, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, South Africa, and Morocco, and to explore her identity and what it meant to live in and navigate the world as a black woman.
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