Debut You✍🏿
Debut You: A 2021 Debut Author Series: Desmond Hall
Debut You is an interview feature on Our Stories Matter blog. Debut authors, who have released or have upcoming releases in 2021, are given five questions to answer about themselves and their book.
Read an👇🏿excerpt:
Tell us about your book.
My protagonist, Frankie Green, a Jamaican teen who gets a full-ride scholarship to study in the U.S., faces a sudden tragedy that threatens everything he’s dreamed of and his very life. A stray bullet strikes Frankie’s father, and Frankie is forced to join his uncle’s posse to get quick money to pay for his father’s medical treatment.
The title, Your Corner Dark, is taken from a phrase in Jamaican culture that refers to being stuck between a rock and a hard place with no good choices. And my story is a fast-paced, riveting page-turner that’s exactly about choices, impossible odds, and perseverance — and you’ll read it with a knot in your throat and hope in your heart. Continue here to read Desmond Hall’s complete “Debut You.”
📖Your Corner Dark
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy
January 19, 2021
Young Adult
384 Pages
Available Now👉🏿Your Corner Dark
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