About the Series

Josephine’s Jamaican Journey, Books One and Two, is a collection of short stories set in Jamaica's immediate post-independence years in the 1960s. The books vividly portray excerpts from Josephine’s life growing up between the ages of 4 and adulthood in four locations along the Spanish Town Road. Check out the map at the back of the book, as places have changed over the decades. It’s good to identify where places were situated and compare the new urban developments.

She tells us her story of venturing from Di Tenement Yaad in Book One to Out and About in Book Two, into the wider world, attending school, and much more. She writes from her perspective, a perspective filled with childhood innocence that allows her to detect nuances that adults often overlook.

Chronicling excerpts from her life growing up in that time, Josephine ostensibly records the country's developing socioeconomic and political scene as she grows up within it. The macro changes in the attitudes, cultural, political, and sociological tensions of the ‘melting pot’ of cultures of many people who have become one nation are on view... Continue Reading

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