Genuine Human Hair: A Story Told by Two Women
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- Synopsis
- **Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize**'Me name Petal. Mi pretty except fi mi picky-picky hair. Mi nah tell nuh lie. Mi head tough. It bruk comb. Well, is a good thing God invent weave.'Petal is a young woman trying to make a life in the Kingston ghetto. Flower is a girl taken by force to a Uyghur re-education camp.In a short story that spans two worlds, Petal and Flower are connected through the most intimate of ways: their hair. Shocking, beautiful and empowering, Genuine Human Hair reveals the cost of racism in two very different ways, and how two women overcome it. Read Sharma Taylor's exciting first novel What a Mother's Love Don't Teach You now!'Outstanding' Cherie Jones'Cacophonic, alive, heart-breaking' Kiran Millwood Hargrave'Rich and exuberant' Claire Adam
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780349017396
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Date of Addition:
- 06/30/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Sharma Taylor
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.