My name is why / Lemn Sissay.
Publication details: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2020.Description: 212 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781786892362 (pbk.) :
- 23
- PR6069.I69 Z46 2020
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Originally published: 2019.
At the age of 17, after a childhood in a fostered family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth. This is Lemn's story; a story of neglect and determination, misfortune and hope, cruelty and triumph. Sissay reflects on a childhood in care, self-expression, and Britishness, and in doing so explores the institutional care system, race, family, and the meaning of home.
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