My Own Dear People
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Nyjah Messado is not haunted by ghosts but by a memory he can’t shake: the day he watched trainee teacher, Maude Dallmeyer dragged away by his schoolmates at his elite boys’ private school—and kept silent. The boyhood code demanded it, and that silence trails him through university and back to Montego Bay, a city polished for tourists but dangerous for its own people, shaped by street-gang politics and a lingering colonial order. As Nyjah navigates its charged streets, he’s forced to confront the man he has become in a world harsh to women and LGBTQ communities.
Taut and lyrical, My Own Dear People explores complicity, masculinity, and one man’s slow journey towards justice.