Coconut: A Black Girl, A White Foster Family, and the Search for Belonging and Identity by Florence Olajide

Coconut: A Black Girl, A White Foster Family, and the Search for Belonging and Identity

Florence Olajide

400 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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'Why am I not white like everybody else?' Nan came and sat on the edge of my bed. 'What do you mean?' A tender finger brushed against my cheek. 'Well, everyone in this house is white. Why am I Black?'A generation of Nigerian children were born in ...

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