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Skye Papers

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ISBN: 9781952177965
AuthorAjalon, Jamika
Pub Date24/06/2021
BindingTrade PB
Pages272
CountryUSA
Dewey813/.6
Quick overview Skye Papers is an imaginative, episodic group portrait of an art scene spearheaded by people of colour - and of the fraught, dystopian reality of increasing state surveillance.
€14.77

Twentysomething and restless, Skye flits between cities and stagnant relationships until she meets Scottie, a disarming and disheveled British traveller, and Pieces, an enigmatic artist living in New York. The three recognise each other as kindred spirits - Black, punk, whimsical, revolutionary - and fall in together, leading Skye on an unlikely adventure across the Atlantic. They live a glorious, subterranean existence in 1990s London: making multimedia art, throwing drug-fuelled parties, and eking out a living by busking in Tube stations, until their existence is jeopardised by the rise of CCTV and policing. In fluid and unrelenting prose, Jamika Ajalon's debut novel explores youth, poetry, and what it means to come terms with queerness.

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Twentysomething and restless, Skye flits between cities and stagnant relationships until she meets Scottie, a disarming and disheveled British traveller, and Pieces, an enigmatic artist living in New York. The three recognise each other as kindred spirits - Black, punk, whimsical, revolutionary - and fall in together, leading Skye on an unlikely adventure across the Atlantic. They live a glorious, subterranean existence in 1990s London: making multimedia art, throwing drug-fuelled parties, and eking out a living by busking in Tube stations, until their existence is jeopardised by the rise of CCTV and policing. In fluid and unrelenting prose, Jamika Ajalon's debut novel explores youth, poetry, and what it means to come terms with queerness.

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