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Paul Mendez - Rainbow Milk: an Observer 2020 Top 10 Debut - 9780349700588 - 9780349700588
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Rainbow Milk: an Observer 2020 Top 10 Debut

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AN OBSERVER TOP TEN DEBUT 2020, SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE, JHALAK PRIZE, POLARI PRIZE, AND THE FICTION DEBUT CATEGORY OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS

Rainbow Milk is an intersectional coming-of-age story, following nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of a Jehovah's Witness upbringing and the legacies of the Windrush generation.

In the Black Country in the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman Alonso is a determined and humble Jamaican who has moved to Britain with his wife to secure a brighter future for themselves and their children. Blighted with unexpected ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Dialogue Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349700588
SKU
9780349700588
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2

About Paul Mendez
Mendez (they/them) was born in the Black Country, a historically industrial region, in 1982. Raised in the Jehovah's Witness faith, they left the organisation while still a teenager, and later began sex work while studying acting at a North London method school. Journaling their experiences eventually led to a novel, Rainbow Milk, which was published in 2020 and shortlisted for ... Read more

Reviews for Rainbow Milk: an Observer 2020 Top 10 Debut
This debut cements Mendez as a stunning new voice in fiction. Semi-autobiographical, this gripping coming-of-age story set in the Black Country in the 1950s follows 19-year-old Jesse as he comes to terms with his racial and sexual identity against the backdrop of his repressive religious upbringing . . . An original addition to the queer fiction canon
Cosmopolitan
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Goodreads reviews for Rainbow Milk: an Observer 2020 Top 10 Debut


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