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02735aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 8DBE7220F0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240402011628 008 240304s2024 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022055555 020 $a 0593596684 020 $a 9780593596685 040 $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR6063.C51755 $b D66 2024 082 00 $a 823/.914 $2 23/eng/20230227 100 1 $a McIntosh, Phoebe, $e author. 245 10 $a Dominoes : $b a novel / $c Phoebe McIntosh. 250 $a First U.S. edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Random House, $c 2024. 300 $a 275 pages ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a "Dominoes opens in London, twenty-nine days before the wedding of a young couple. Layla is a mixed-race woman--with a Black, Jamaican mother, and a white father she's never met--and Andy is a white man of Scottish descent. When they first meet at a party, they can't believe how instant their chemistry is, and how quickly their relationship unfolds. But the commonalities between the two outweigh their differences; funnily enough, they even share a last name: McKinnon. Layla's best friend, Sera, isn't so sure--about Andy, or the fact that her best friend is engaged to marry a white man. As Layla's wedding date approaches, Sera prompts her friend to research her heritage more, and in the process Layla makes a shocking discovery: It's not just possible but extremely likely that Andy's ancestors enslaved Layla's in Jamaica, and that the money from that enslavement helped build his family's wealth. What seemed like a fairy-tale romance is suddenly derailed as Layla begins to uncover parts of her history and identity that she never could have imagined--or had simply learnt to ignore. The process takes her to Jamaica for the first time, where she meets family members she's never known, and uncovers truths about her family's history that will change the way she thinks about herself and her future. As the clock ticks down to her wedding--four days, three days, two days--Layla must make a decision: commit to the man she loves, or expose a shameful history that has gone unspoken for far too long"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women, Black $z Great Britain $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Jamaicans $z England $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Interpersonal relations $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Slavery $z Great Britain $x History $v Fiction. 651 0 $a London (England) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Romance fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 3 952 $l KOPC446 $d 20240410010406.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240409012908.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240402011859.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8DBE7220F0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search