TY  - GEN
AU  - Gurnah, Abdulrazak 
TI  - Dottie
SN  - 9781526653468
U1  - 823.92 
PY  - 1990///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - Africa
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Self-perception in women
KW  - Women--Black
KW  - England
KW  - Families--Black
N2  - Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history – or the abuse her ancestors suffered as they made their home in Britain.

At seventeen, she takes on the burden of responsibility for her brother and sister and is obsessed with keeping the family together. However, as Sophie, lumpen yet voluptuous, drifts away, and the confused Hudson is absorbed into the world of crime, Dottie is forced to consider her own needs. Building on her fragmented, tantalising memories, she begins to clear a path through life, gradually gathering the confidence to take risks, to forge friendships and to challenge the labels that have been forced upon her.

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ER  -