My Own Dear People R. Eric Thomas -- Elizabeth Kolbert

-- Elizabeth Kolbert

And as they embark on separate quests to find the elusive creature

the Judean king lived during the first century BCE

In this charming story

My Own Dear People R. Eric Thomas -- Elizabeth KolbertIn Montego Bay, Jamaica, teenager Nyjah Messado witnesses a brutal assault by some of the boys in his circle of friends. Torn between the masculine code at his private all boys' school and his own conscience, Nyjah fails to intervene, and comes of age haunted by the guilt of his inaction. Stylistically engaging, ambitious in scope, and brimming with poetic patois, the novel takes us through a sweeping movement between the younger and more mature