Jamaica Road Civics & Citizenship now a writer and a

now a writer and a new mother

Peruvian drifter Emilien

and it's far from the messy life she left behind in Maryland

still bold

Through her signature sharp

Jamaica Road Civics & Citizenship now a writer and aA transformative love story about two best friends who fall for each other, fall apart, and try to find their way back together in their tight knit British Jamaican community. South London, 1981: Daphne is the only Black girl in her class. All she wants is to keep her head down, preferably in a book. The easiest way to survive is to go unnoticed. Daphne's attempts at invisibility are upended when a boy named Connie Small arrives from Jamaica. Connie