![]() As a teen, he discovers his love of poetry and abandons his love for song, only to fall head over heels for drag at university. ![]() He also grows from a kid who cries when he receives a Ninja Turtle instead of the Barbie of his dreams, to a teen who cries after being rejected by his crush, to a man who doesn’t cry but rather shouts when a partner breaks his heart. Navigating cultural identity as Cypriot and Jamaican as well as his emerging sexuality, Michael sheds the painful baggage of his absent father by taking his mother’s name. ![]() ![]() In this uplifting coming-of-age novel told in accessible verse, Atta ( I Am Nobody’s Nigger, for adults) chronicles the growth and glory of Michael Angeli, a mixed-race kid from London, as he matures from a child to a man. ![]()
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