{"id":60150,"date":"2020-09-12T01:23:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T01:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60150"},"modified":"2020-09-12T01:23:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T01:23:33","slug":"are-we-home-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60150","title":{"rendered":"Are We Home Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacarandabooksartmusic.co.uk\/products\/are-we-home-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Are We Home Yet?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacarandabooksartmusic.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacaranda Books<\/a><br \/>\n2020-09-10<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN13: 9781913090197<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katymassey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Katy Massey<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacarandabooksartmusic.co.uk\/products\/are-we-home-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jacaranda-uk.imgix.net\/covers\/9781913090197.jpg?auto=format&amp;w=425\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>One of Jacaranda&#8217;s #TwentyIn2020, <\/em>Are We Home Yet?<em> is a moving memoir of a mixed-race woman from a working class community in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leeds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leeds<\/a> and her outspoken French-Canadian mother. Exploring issues of shame, immigration and class, the pair share their stories but struggle to understand each other\u2019s choices in a fast-changing world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spanning the years from 1935 to 2010, <em>Are We Home Yet?<\/em> is the moving and funny story of a girl and her mother.<\/p>\n<p>As a girl, Katy accidentally discovers her mother is earning money as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sex_worker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sex worker<\/a> at the family home, rupturing their bond. As an adult, Katy contends with grief and mental health challenges before she and her mother attempt to heal their relationship. From <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canada<\/a>, to Leeds and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jamaica<\/a>, and exploring shame, immigration and class, the pair share their stories but struggle to understand each other\u2019s choices in a fast-changing world.<\/p>\n<p>By revealing their truths, can these two strong women call a truce on their hostilities and overcome the oppressive ghosts of the past?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Jacaranda&#8217;s #TwentyIn2020, Are We Home Yet? is a moving memoir of a mixed-race woman from a working class community in Leeds and her outspoken French-Canadian mother. Exploring issues of shame, immigration and class, the pair share their stories but struggle to understand each other\u2019s choices in a fast-changing world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,19,21,414,8,17,10],"tags":[81,31134,80,13167,29258],"class_list":["post-60150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-canada","category-latincarib","category-family","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-uk","tag-england","tag-jacaranda-books","tag-jamaica","tag-katy-massey","tag-leeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60152,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60150\/revisions\/60152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}