The Day I Fell Off My Island Coming of Age Fiction As she watches Pop-Pop’s chicken

As she watches Pop-Pop’s chicken sizzling in the skillet

Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college

discuss the impact of trauma and adversity and how healing must begin with a shift to asking

but they will always hold your gaze

But her life at home isn't so absolute

The Day I Fell Off My Island Coming of Age Fiction As she watches Pop-Pop’s chickenComing of age debut novel, by the mother of Zadie Smith, about a young Jamaican girl faced with the trauma of immigration, estrangement from her family, and the emotional upheaval of moving to London in the 1960s. The Day I Fell Off My Island tells the story of Erna Mullings, a teenage Jamaican girl uprooted from her island following the sudden death of her beloved grandmother. When Erna is sent to England to be reunited with her siblings, she dreads