The possibility of tenderness : a Jamaican memoir of plants and dreams
Allen-Paisant, Jason2025
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'The Possibility of Tenderness' is a personal history narrated through the lens of the 'grung' and plants. It's also a people's history of the land, a family saga, an archival detective story through time. It's the migration tale of a young scholar who arrives in Britain from rural Jamaica to study at Oxford to achieve 'upward social mobility' and who now lives in Roundhay Leeds. Suddenly, amidst his journey of dreams and class aspiration, the plants and people of his native district, Coffee Grove, begin to offer different ways of living, alternative dreams, and the possibility of tenderness and the permission to roam England.
Main title:
The possibility of tenderness : a Jamaican memoir of plants and dreams / Jason Allen-Paisant.
Author:
Allen-Paisant, Jason, author
Imprint:
London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2025.
Collation:
320 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781529153620 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
821.92828 ALLB
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
5459163