![]() ![]() Home to a multicultural cocktail of communities, this is a city where “di rich live soft and comfortable” in opulent localities, “di poor scratch di rock-hard earth” in impoverished townships and “the colour of your skin still counts for everything”. ![]() In her third novel, the author remains faithful to the milieu she knows intimately: Kingston, Jamaica, where she was born and spent the first decade of her life. Gloria, which followed, was well received by critics. Pao, her debut effort, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize Show Me a Mountain, the most recent of the interconnected novels constituting Kerry Young’s ‘Jamaican trilogy’, comes with high expectations: ![]()
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