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Jamaica road / Lisa Smith.
Van Pelt Library PR6119.M57675 J36 2025
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Lisa (author), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage girls, Black--Fiction.
- Teenage girls, Black.
- Girls, Black--Fiction.
- Girls, Black.
- Jamaicans--England--London--Fiction.
- Jamaicans.
- First loves--Fiction.
- First loves.
- Noncitizens--England--London--Fiction.
- Noncitizens.
- Illegal immigration--England--London--Fiction.
- Illegal immigration.
- Black people--England--London--Social conditions--Fiction.
- Black people.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Family secrets--Fiction.
- Family secrets.
- Best friends--Fiction.
- Best friends.
- Illegal immigration--England--Fiction.
- Jamaicans--Fiction.
- Noncitizens--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- London (England)--History--1951---Fiction.
- London (England).
- Genre:
- Bildungsromans.
- Historical fiction.
- Romance fiction.
- Social problem fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 439 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
- 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"-- 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.
- Notes:
- "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 9780593537657
- 0593537653
- OCLC:
- 1457078253
- Publisher Number:
- 90102230676
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