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Keisha The Sket
TouchMyToe · 18/10/2021 09:10
This book was featured on a BBC article
www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-58872982
Finally black authors are being published. In the US black entertainment is mainstream...hopefully the UK will catch up
bfp2 · 18/10/2021 20:26
Already started reading this! Bringing back so many memories of being young at that time and also how we used to text/type!
TouchMyToe · 19/10/2021 08:23
@bfp2
I know, its like a whole new language. The author is clearly talented...she now teaches African politics at a university.....
EchoNan · 19/10/2021 20:30
It's an amazing work. Thanks for posting about it.
I wonder if, in years to come, it will become a set work of some kind, like Catcher in the Rye?
stalkersaga · 21/10/2021 13:53
I've just downloaded it and am finding it vivid and enriching. I learned of it from the BBC article.
Anotherbrokenairer · 09/11/2021 12:06
Well done to her, doing amazing things with her life.
However, I couldn't read it if the whole book was in text slang. I've never text like that, that small extract took me ages to decipher lol.
Jobseeker19 · 11/11/2021 21:40
Omg, I remember this from when I was young.
Me and my cousin shared the characters names.
TouchMyToe · 12/11/2021 08:07
@jobseekee19 do you mean role play? Which character did you identify with?
Jobseeker19 · 12/11/2021 08:09
No, we had the same names as two of the characters, my cousin being called Keisha.
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