From hairstyles in schools to police officers playing football with guns on their shoulders, Kristina, Ashley and Jherane discuss the ways colonialism and all of his friends continues to be the foundation of modern Jamaica in their review of Augustown.
Like A Real Book Club: Episode 13 - The One About Mental Health & Jamaican Churches
Ashley, Jherane and Kristina have an intimate conversation about their experiences with churches, mental health, and of course books.
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Like A Real Book Club: Episode 6 - Does This Make Us Demanding Caribbean Readers?
Is it ok to “feel a way” when a Caribbean author doesn’t use our language and our culture in their work? We love reading novels and poetry from the Caribbean, especially ones written by Jamaican authors, but are we demanding in our expectations? Also, wtf is magical realism?
Books Mentioned Worth Reading:
A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes
Here Comes The Sun by Nicole Dennis Benn
PATSY by Nicole Dennis Benn