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Book review: Maame a funny, essential portrait of a black girl growing up in London

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Jessica George’s intelligent and funny debut is drawn quite liberally from her own life growing up as a black girl in Britain.

Jessica George’s intelligent and funny debut is drawn quite liberally from her own life growing up as a black girl in Britain.

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Maame

By Jessica George
Fiction/Hodder & Stoughton/Paperback/400 pages/$32.98/Major bookstores
5 stars

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