“Broughtupsy” is out now from Catapult.
The idea of “going home” is, for many members of the LGBTQ+ community, a complicated one. Take, for example, Akúa, the protagonist of Christina Cooke’s debut novel, Broughtupsy, who returns to Jamaica from Canada to connect with her sister after the loss of their younger brother. Akúa is soon forced to question what it means to belong as a young, queer, grief-stricken woman doing her best to heal.
Not a bad question, just a hard one. I’ve lived in eight cities across four countries. The longest stint was 11 years; the shortest was nine months. Each place invariably left its stamp on me, reshaping who I am and how I see the world in ways that put me out of step with wherever it was I was headed to next. It’s no surprise, then, that “home” is an incredibly complicated concept for me, and served as one of the central obsessions that compelled me to write Broughtupsy.
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