My name is why
(eAudiobook)
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Published
[Edinburgh] : Canongate Books, 2019.
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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Format
eAudiobook
Language
English
ISBN
9780655642336
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Downloadable eAudiobook.
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Non fiction.
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Duration: 07:01:00.
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Read by Zoe Mills.
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Read by Lemn Sissay.
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Read by Richard Burnip.
Description
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an 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. Here Sissay recounts his life story. It is 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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Adult.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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