Jerome, a young boy from a poor family on a small West Indian island, must contend with his feelings and experiences surrounding the pressure to conform to racial, class and sexual expectations. The author was born in St Vincent and the Grenadines in 1947 and emigrated to Canada at the age of 21.
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