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Her parents love her fiercely. But Maizi is entering a world they cannot entirely see: a world of curiosity and awakening, of changing relationships, and of the new power her youthful beauty seems to possess.
Told in Maizi’s startling and uncompromising voice, About Your Daughter follows a pre-teen girl beginning to understand desire, attraction and the complicated ways in which other people see her. As the boundaries between innocence and experience become increasingly uncertain, Maizi observes the adults around her with an honesty that can be funny, disarming and deeply unsettling.
Provocative without offering easy answers, About Your Daughter is a bold work of contemporary literary fiction about a young girl discovering a world — and herself — before those closest to her are quite ready for either.
Roger Emms has lived in the Caribbean for over thirty years.
Before turning to fiction, he worked internationally in healthcare research and policy, founding a London-based consultancy focused on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS across Africa, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and the Middle East. He has also worked in a children’s psychiatric hospital and supported a home for abused children.
Roger is also a painter, working from his studio in the Caribbean. His painting Cell phone features on the jacket of About Your Daughter.
About Your Daughter is his debut novel.
