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What A Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You

What A Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You
  • Author(s): Sharma Taylor
  • Location(s): Kingston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she worked for before they left Jamaica. They never returned. She never forgot him. Eighteen years later, a young man comes from the US to...

The Disappearers

The Disappearers
  • Author(s): Marlon James
  • Location(s): Jamaica, Kingston
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 1980s

So when eight gay men meet for the first time, in Kingston in 1988, answering the casting call for an openly queer play, they are already taking a big risk. But that is nothing compared to what rains down...

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