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A coming-of-age tale with a twist: a 14-year-old clinically depressed Trinidadian girl, who has attempted suicide, is banished by her mother to Canada to live with her aunt. She feels lonely in exile. Adding to this estrangement is the fact that her aunt is a lesbian - which is deemed shameful in Trinidad. But with the help of a boy and her Skyping best friend "back home" in Trinidad, 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?

Lisa Allen-Agostini is a Trinidadian novelist and journalist. She is the author of a book of poems Swallowing the Sky (Cane Arrow Press) and a young adult Novel. The Chalice Project (Macmillan Caribbean). Her poetry and fiction have appeared widely in literary journals.