Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction as well as the 2017 Stella Prize, Maxine Beneba Clarke looks back on her coming of age in suburban Australia, set apart by being black in an almost entirely white environment. A memoir of race and diaspora for readers of }The Good Immigrant{ and Ta-Nehisi Coates 'Maxine Beneba Clarke is a powerful and fearless storyteller...Clarke is the read deal, and will, if we're lucky, be an essential voice in world literature for years to come' - Dave Eggers, international bestselling author
