Are We Home Yet? by Katy Massey
One of Jacaranda's #TwentyIn2020, Are We Home Yet? is a moving memoir of a mixed-race woman from a working class community in Leeds and her outspoken French-Canadian mother. Exploring issues of shame, immigration and class, the pair share their stories but struggle to understand each other's choices in a fast-changing world.
Katy's writing is unflinchingly honest and undeniably authenticIt is also funny, sharp and full of perfectly placed detail. She challenges our preconceptions whilst transporting us right into the middle of a world few of us have had a chance to see this clearly before. * Sharon Duggal, author of The Handsworth Times and Should We Fall Behind *
Katy Massey was a journalist for fifteen years before returning to university and beginning to write creatively. Her PhD findings formed the inspiration for Tangled Roots, a long-term project aiming to equip everyone with the skills to author their own lives. She is a skilled workshop leader, editor and writer. Her life writing and fiction has been shortlisted for several prizes including Leeds Literature Prize 2013, Crocus Books/Commonword First Chapter competition 2010 as well as being long-listed for Route publications A Few Good Books submissions competition 2010. She has also edited two collections of memoirs. In 2017 she was a judge for the first-ever Spread the Word Life Writing Prize
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| ISBN 13 | 9781913090197 |
| ISBN 10 | 1913090191 |
| Title | Are We Home Yet? |
| Author | Katy Massey |
| Series | Twenty In 2020 |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd |
| Year published | 2020-09-10 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Jhalak Prize 2021 (UK) |
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