Dominoes: A Novel

Dominoes: A NovelA tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed race British woman who makes the shocking discovery in the days leading up to her wedding that her fiancs family may have enslaved her ancestorsSimultaneously sweet and sobering, this is one you will not want to miss.Onyi Nwabineli, author of Someday, MaybeDominoes opens in London, twenty nine days before a young couples wedding. Layla is a mixed race womanwith a Black, Jamaican mother, and a white

racial tension

‘A timely book in a year that has made clear that Britain still has a very long way to go towards becoming the model of racial equality it aims to be

particularly around the 1998-2000 Border War with Ethiopia

Kindness isn't merely about getting along with people and being nice

she is willing to defy everything and anyone to keep his love forever

The same set of verses for all four translations is located on facing pages two translations to a page making text comparison a snap

and sexuality—systemic to women of color oppression and liberation

At the novel’s center is Alice herself

four Grand Slam tournaments

who also happens to be one of her father's most trusted street hustlers

and the gang aren’t exactly “heroes”…but they’ll head to the supposedly unbeatable Devil’s Tower anyway to save the day

Its most famous conquerors would come from Europe