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Blackgirl on Mars

"This radiant, stimulating memoir follows the author’s search for home and healing, and explores what it means to be a Black Indigenous woman in Europe and America."

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“Here is a record of an attempted escape from teaching, of a journey of crossing borders, seeking refuge, health, marronage, that I embarked upon to find home…” With these words, Lesley-Ann Brown invites readers into her rich, raw, insightful book. 

Part memoir, part rallying cry for change, and part presentation of the legacies of imperialism, Blackgirl from Mars leads readers on a search-for-home journey that takes in the author’s childhood in Trinidad, young adulthood in Brooklyn, and life as a teacher in Denmark, and that’s just the start of it. 

We also experience Brown’s returns to Trinidad and Tobago, islands “fertilized with the blood of my people”, for her indigenous Kalinago ancestors “were the human sacrifices Europe made - for land, money, power and control.” 

Compellingly personal and wise, Blackgirl from Mars is thoughtful, thought-provoking and threaded with a sense of healing, and the notion that “Home is everywhere I am.”

Joanne Owen

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