Growing Pains

       Caryl Phillips         

Chapter One

He lives in Leeds, in the north of England. His is a strange school for there is a broad white line in the middle of the playground. The boys and girls from the local housing estate have to play on one side of the line. His immigrant parents own their small house and so he is instructed to play on the other side of the line. He is the only black boy in the school...

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