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Book By Asha Ashanti BromfieldAuthor : Asha Ashanti Bromfield Pages : pages Publisher : Language : ISBN10 : 65213911-songs-of-irie ISBN-13 : 9781250846808
Perfect for fans of The Black Kids, Songs of Irie is a sweeping coming-of-age novel from Asha Bromfield about a friendship struggling to survive amidst the Jamaican civil unrest of the 1970s.It's 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of important elections and the warring political parties have made the divisions between the poor and the wealthy even wider. And
Irie and Jilly come from very different backgrounds: Irie is from the heart of Kingston, where fighting in the streets is common. Jilly is from the hills, where mansions nestled within lush gardens remain safe behind gates. But the two bond through a shared love of Reggae music, spending time together at Irie's father's record store, listening to so-called rebel music that opens Jilly's mind to a sound and a way of thinking she's never heard before.As tensions build in the streets, so do tensions between the two girls. A budding romance between them complicates things further as the push and pull between their