My own dear people
2025
Book
"In Montego Bay, Jamaica, teenager Nyjah Messado witnesses a brutal assault by some of the boys in his circle of friends. Torn between the masculine code at his private all boys' school and his own conscience, Nyjah fails to intervene, and comes of age haunted by the guilt of his inaction"-- Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781636141916
Description: 335 pages ; 23 cm
Notes: Subtitle from cover.
LCCN: 2024940686
Control Number: 3415046
Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Akashic Books, [2025]Subjects:
- Boys' schools -- Fiction.
- Forgiveness -- Fiction.
- Friendship -- Fiction.
- Gender expression.
- Homophobia -- Fiction.
- LGBTQ+ phobia.
- LGBTQ+ relationships.
- Male friendship -- Fiction.
- Masculinity -- Fiction.
- Misogyny -- Fiction.
- Montego Bay (Jamaica) -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
- Rape -- Fiction.
- Rapists -- Fiction.
- Sexual assault.
- Sexual violence.
- Social classes -- Jamaica -- Fiction.
- Young men -- Fiction.
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Other Authors: Akashic Books, publisher.