Minx /

MINX reveals the vibrant but precarious world of a multi-racial Romani family: a world of grandfathers brewing moonshine in marrows, basement reggae parties and a mother struggling to support her two daughters on the proceeds of her shadowy profession. Their powerful bond helps the sisters survive w...

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Main Author: Downs-Barton, Karen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Chatto & Windus, [2025].
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Summary:MINX reveals the vibrant but precarious world of a multi-racial Romani family: a world of grandfathers brewing moonshine in marrows, basement reggae parties and a mother struggling to support her two daughters on the proceeds of her shadowy profession. Their powerful bond helps the sisters survive when they’re taken into care, in a children’s home that forcibly separates them. With a verve and playfulness that belies their pain, these poems explore what it means to belong. Through daring experiments with form and narrative, MINX captures how it feels to grow up between a culture whose traditional ways are being lost and a wider society that despises them.
Physical Description:85 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:1784745871
9781784745875