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A Novel
Anchor
June 2022
On Sale: May 31, 2022
Featuring: Norman; Jesse
336 pages
ISBN: 0593313070
EAN: 9780593313077
Kindle: B08K7N2BK7
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Historical | Multicultural African-American | LGBTQ
In the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman Alonso is a determined and humble Jamaican who has immigrated to Britain with his wife and children to secure a brighter future. Blighted with unexpected illness and racism, Norman and his family are resilient, but are all too aware that their family will need more than just hope to survive in their new country.
At the turn of the millennium, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London, escaping a broken immediate family, a repressive religious community and his depressed hometown in the industrial Black Country. But once he arrives he finds himself at a loss for a new center of gravity, and turns to sex work, music and art to create his own notions of love, masculinity and spirituality.
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