Name: My Name Is Why By Lemn Sissay
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My Name Is Why Summary

My Name Is Why: Quick Reads 2022 by Lemn Sissay

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How does a government steal a child and then imprison him?
How does it keep it a secret?
This story is how.
This story is true.

My Name Is Why is a true story about growing up in care and fighting to succeed despite the cruelty and failures of the care system.

My Name Is Why Reviews

A lyrical, painful and yet hope-filled memoir . . . Shattering, light-searching * * Observer * *
Searing . . . Unputdownable . . . My Name Is Why is authentic and beautiful, a potential game-changer in public attitudes to children raised in care. It's about bureaucratic cruelty and what happens when love is absent. Don't miss it * * The Times * *
An extraordinary story * * Sunday Times * *
The most amazing thing about this book is that it's not made up. This actually happened. It is an incredible story -- BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH
I have never read a memoir like it. A blistering account of a young life in the hands of neglectful authorities. It's a quest for understanding, for home, for answers. Grips like a thriller. Astounding -- MATT HAIG
The great triumph of this work comes from its author's determination to rail against what he rightly diagnoses as this institutionally endorsed disremembering of black and marginalised experience. It is a searing and unforgettable re-creation of the most brutal of beginnings -- Michael Donkor * * Guardian * *
Utterly devastating and beautiful . . . Breathtakingly written -- DOLLY ALDERTON
This is a deeply moving memoir that speaks with incredible poeticism. A staggering expose of colonial theft and abandonment, this book is grippingly heartbreaking -- DAVID LAMMY
A fascinating memoir . . . So powerful -- ELIF SHAFAK
The engaging transfiguring truth of My Name Is Why is like a baptism of truth - leaving you washed clean of lies and reborn in love. Profound in its kindness, intelligence and unselfish heart, this book is important and unputdownable -- JESSICA HYNES

About Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. He has written collections of poetry and plays. He received an MBE in 2010 and an OBE in 2021 for services to literature and charity. He is Chancellor of the University of Manchester. He is British and Ethiopian.

@lemnsissay | lemnsissay.com

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GOR012230543

ISBN 13

9781838854645

ISBN 10

1838854649

Title

My Name Is Why: Quick Reads 2022 by Lemn Sissay

Author

Lemn Sissay

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Canongate Books Ltd

Year published

2022-04-14

Number of pages

160

Prizes

Short-listed for The Biographers' Club Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Award 2019 (UK) Short-listed for Parliamentary Book Awards 2019 (UK) Short-listed for Gordon Burn Prize 2020 (UK)

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My Name Is Why Lemn Sissay

My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay

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My Name Is Why Summary

My Name Is Why: Quick Reads 2022 by Lemn Sissay

My Name Is Why Reviews

About Lemn Sissay

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