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The banana kid
A powerful debut of graving up black, feminal and in care
Auteur Mason-John Valerie
Categorie anderstalig
Uitgeverij BAAF
Isbn 978 1905664375
Jaartal 2005
I could have been born and raised in Africa. Bu my spirit was in too much of a rush to bereincarnated... At six weeks I was cucked out into the new year of 1965 which wasn't prepared to welcome an African baby, abandoned on a harsh English winter's day.
So begins Pauline's spirited and moving story of her chidldhood and teenage years in and out of foster homes and back and forth to Dr. Barardo's Village in Essex. Her Barnardo's family was rueld by an unlikely trio - Aunty Claire, a fervent Christian; her laconic husband, the German Jewish Uncle Boris; and Aunty Morag, the cook. And, of course other kids orphaned or abanadoned like Pauline. Woven intro this account are Pauline's angel and spririt companions. Sparkly, Annabel and Snake who by turns help and hinder her to survive in the "real world".
The Barnardo's good times are shattered by the sudden visits of her mother, whom she calls Wunmi and with whom she goes to live in a London high-rise. Wunmi's method of refashioning Pauline into a dutiful African child is literally to knock the English out of her.
She tries other ways to survive sniffing glue and shoplifting until the harsh realities of detention centres and juvenile courts make Pauline think again...
