Keisha The Sket: ‘A true British classic.’ Stormzy

by	Jade LB

SKU: 9781529118926 Categories: Coming of Age, Fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary Tags: beautiful world, Bernardine Evaristo, black authors books for adults, Bolu Babalola, caleb femi, Candice Brathwaite, Candice Carty-Williams, contemporary, drake, dystopian fiction, euphoria, fleabag, Gabriel Krauze, girl woman, I May Destroy You, In Our Mad and Furious City, Jacqueline Wilson, Love in Colour, Michaela Coel, misfits a personal manifesto, Queenie, rachel thompson, rocks, Sally Rooney, sister sista, Sister Souljah, skins, social stories, Stormzy, the right to sex, top 10 fiction, top ten fiction, we are all birds of uganda, Zadie Smith, zendaya

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WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK DISCOVER AWARD 2022Where were you when Keisha the Sket first broke the internet?Keisha is a girl from the ends, sharp, feisty and ambitious; she’s been labelled ‘top sket’ but she’s making it work. When childhood crush and long-time admirer, Ricardo, finally wins her over, Keisha has it all: power, a love life and the chance for stability. But trauma comes knocking and with it a whirlwind of choices that will define what kind of a woman she truly wants to be.Told with the heart and soul of the inner city, with an unforgettable heroine, Keisha the Sket is a revelation of the true, raw, arousing and tender core of British youth culture.Complete with essays from esteemed contemporary writers Candice Carty-Williams, Caleb Femi and Aniefiok Ekpoudom.

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Weight	0.291 kg
Dimensions	2.7 × 12.7 × 19.8 cm
by	Jade LB
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Pages	416
Publisher	Random House
Year Published	2022-6-30
Imprint	Merky Books
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	1529118921
About The Author	In 2005, the author known only as 'Jade' began releasing chapters of Keisha The [Da] Sket on Piczo. The work became a viral sensation, capturing black British culture and youth-authored youth experience. Jade LB is a London-based creative and academic writer whose writing explores black women and relationships, black British culture and the black British working-class experience. One half of The Echo Chamber podcast, she has written articles and essays for Black Ballad and other publications and currently takes up space in academia. Here, she returns to Keisha The Sket, revisiting and amplifying a character she created when she was just thirteen.
Review Quote	Keisha the Sket is truly a crucial part of not just Black Brit literature, but British literature as a whole.
Other text	Our literary foremother.

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