My Own Dear People

Name: My Own Dear People - Cassava Republic Press
SKU: 978-1-913175-88-7
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Nyjah Messado is not haunted by ghosts but by a memory he can’t shake: the day he watched trainee teacher, Maude Dallmeyer dragged away by his schoolmates at his elite boys’ private school—and kept silent. The boyhood code demanded it, and that silence trails him through university and back to Montego Bay, a city polished for tourists but dangerous for its own people, shaped by street-gang politics and a lingering colonial order. As Nyjah navigates its charged streets, he’s forced to confront the man he has become in a world harsh to women and LGBTQ communities.

Taut and lyrical, My Own Dear People explores complicity, masculinity, and one man’s slow journey towards justice.

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Dwight Thompson is the award-winning author of the novel Death Register and has published short stories in PREE and the Caribbean Writer. He won the Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize, was short-listed for the 2012 Small Axe Literary Competition, and was long-listed for the 2021 and 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. My Own Dear People is his second novel. He was born and raised in Jamaica, and currently works at an international school in Hiroshima, Japan.