Small Island

Name: Small Island
Author: Andrea Levy

by Andrea Levy

Jamaican and British families navigate postwar migration, racism, and belonging

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Andrea Levy

British-Jamaican novelist whose Small Island won the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Novel Award. Her fiction celebrates the experience of the Windrush generation in Britain with warmth, humor, and moral seriousness. She was one of the most beloved Black British writers.

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Never Far from NowhereYoung Black women in 1980s London navigate identity, racism, and sisterhood
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