Life As Josephine

"I am a pretty determined person." That is the way Josephine Peters describes herself and determined she is Set in a Bronx, New York neighborhood in the 1990s, Life As Josephine depicts the formative years of this confident and self-assured Caribbean-American teenager. She rocks her hair naturally, has a solid support base in her three friends, Peniel, Rhoda, and Esther and her adoptive Nigerian Auntie, Abeo. While dealing with the tragic death of someone close to her, she also grapples with issues of race, gender, natural hair, and coming to terms with her mother Frances, who she feels doesn't understand her.After getting an amazing opportunity to travel to London on a class trip, the usually confident teenager starts to question her identity when she experiences direct prejudice for the first time.It turns out Josephine will have to seek her strength to overcome from a woman she will never meet as she pushes forward and redefines herself entering young adulthood.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Nisbett, Claytine
Published: 03/24/2017
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542922593
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.20d