TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Lisa
TI  - Jamaica Road
SN  - 9780593537657
PY  - 0000///July 152025///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified]
PB  - Knopf Publishing Group
KW  - Teenage girls, Black
KW  - Noncitizens
KW  - Families
KW  - Black people
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - First loves
KW  - Illegal immigration
KW  - Family secrets
N1  - new book 2025 fall
N2  - 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 is the opposite of small in every way: lanky, outgoing, and unapologetically himself. Daphne tries to keep her distance, but Connie is magnetic, and they form an intense bond. As they navigate growing up in a volatile, rapidly changing city, their families become close, and their friendship begins to shift into something more complicated. When Connie reveals that he and his mother 'nuh land'--meaning they're in England illegally--Daphne realizes that she is dangerously entangled in Connie's fragile home life. Soon, long-buried secrets in both families threaten to tear them apart permanently"--
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