TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sissay,Lemn
TI  - My name is why: a memoir 
T2  - Quick reads 2022
SN  - 9781838854645 (pbk.) :
AV  - PR6069.I69 
U1  - 920 SIS 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Canongate
KW  - Sissay, Lemn,
KW  - Poets, English
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Poets, Black
KW  - Children
KW  - Institutional care
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Biography & non-fiction prose
KW  - thema
KW  - Autobiography: general
KW  - Memoirs
KW  - Social discrimination & equal treatment
N2  - At the age of 17, after a childhood in a fostered family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth. This is Lemn's story; a story of neglect and determination, misfortune and hope, cruelty and triumph. Sissay reflects on a childhood in care, self-expression and Britishness, and in doing so explores the institutional care system, race, family and the meaning of home. Written with all the lyricism and power you would expect from one of the nation's best-loved poets, this moving, frank and timely memoir is the result of a life spent asking questions, and a celebration of the redemptive power of creativity
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