Ajalon Jamika
Ajalon Jamika - Skye Papers - Paperback
Ajalon Jamika - Skye Papers - Paperback
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Description: Twentysomething and restless Skye flits between cities and stagnant relationships until she meets Scottie a disarming and disheveled British traveler and Pieces an enigmatic artist living in New York. The three recognize 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 - fueled parties and eking out a living by busking in Tube stations until their existence is jeopardized 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. Skye Papers is an imaginative episodic group portrait of a transatlantic art scene spearheaded by people of color and of the fraught dystopian reality of increasing state surveillance.
Title: Skye Papers
Author(s): Ajalon Jamika
Publisher: Feminist Press At The City University Of New York
Barcode: 9781952177965
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 6/8/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: Twentysomething and restless Skye flits between cities and stagnant relationships until she meets Scottie a disarming and disheveled British traveler and Pieces an enigmatic artist living in New York. The three recognize 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 - fueled parties and eking out a living by busking in Tube stations until their existence is jeopardized 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. Skye Papers is an imaginative episodic group portrait of a transatlantic art scene spearheaded by people of color and of the fraught dystopian reality of increasing state surveillance.
Title: Skye Papers
Author(s): Ajalon Jamika
Publisher: Feminist Press At The City University Of New York
Barcode: 9781952177965
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 6/8/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
