My Name Is Why

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Lemn Sissay: My Name Is Why (2019, Canongate Books)

English language

Published Feb. 20, 2019 by Canongate Books.

ISBN:
978-1-78689-235-5
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4 stars (1 review)

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Raw account of a lost childhood

4 stars

A stark recounting of Sissay's childhood and the way the care system and systemic racism failed him. Even though it was a story of a pretty dark account, I wanted it o be longer to recount how he dealt with those issues after he left the care system at 18, but perhaps that's coming in a future volume.