Set in Canada with a Trinidadian backdrop, Home Home explores mental illness as any other kind of illness, and the LGBT family as any other kind of family.
"I loved this book. It vividly creates a world of depression and lost opportunity but also of hope and unconditional love." Patrice Lawrence, author of Orangeboy.
Home Home was the third-prize winner in the Burt Prize for Young Adult Caribbean Literature in 2017.
About Home Home
When a depressed Trinidadian teenager is sent by her mother to Canada to live with her lesbian aunt she feels lonely and in exile. But with the help of her aunt, a gorgeous-looking boy, and her Skyping best friend "back home", she begins to accept her new family and her illness. Then her mother arrives and threatens to take her back to Trinidad. Where then is home?
About the author
Lisa Allen-Agostini is a widely-published novelist, journalist and poet from Trinidad & Tobago. Her first YA work, The Chalice Project, was a sci-fi novel set in the Caribbean. She writes primarily about the Caribbean, its people and its culture. She lives in Trinidad with her family.
http://papillotepress.co.uk/2018/03/home-home/