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AUTHOR MICHELLE THOMPSON TO LAUNCH BOOK ON HER JAMAICAN CHILDHOOD!

KINGSTON, Jamaica —– A Way To Escape, Jamaican Michelle Thompson’s book based on her childhood in East Kingston, will have its local launch on December 15.  It will be launched at the Norman Road offices of LMH Publishing in Central Kingston. The book, Thompson’s first, chronicles the life of a working-class family in post-Independence Jamaica. Their stable home is disrupted by an alcoholic father’s abuse of his wife. The matriarch, Rose Tomlinson, leaves her husband with their children and eventually migrates to Toronto, Canada. By the mid-1970’s, they join her there. “Growing up in East Kingston gave me a sense of community, where we looked out for each other, and loyalty still means a lot to me. Today, if anyone, especially from my Jamaican or Black community needs my help, I make the time,” Thompson … Read entire article »

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