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Potus touch / Earl Green.

By: Ontario, Canada : Sands Press, 20162016Description: 184 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781988281254
  • 1988281253
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • F Ja Gre
Summary: "Potus Touch is a unique, semi fictional account of the historic American president's visit to Jamaica. Fact is interwoven with fictional characters in a resplendent embroidery of a tale that could have been told in parts in any households in Jamaica. Potus Touch relates the journey of an inner city adolescent and his uptown friend who find themselves in the face of immediate and longstanding struggles. It is about recent history, Jamaican culture meeting with American culture, ghettos and suburbs, friendship, choices, love lost, found, and maintained, sex, adolescent complexities, ganja, child abuse, the search of a boy-man for a father figure, and the ways everything touches everyone."-- Provided by publisher.Summary: From the moment the announcement went out about President Barack Obama's impending visit to Jamaica, Romar Bumbly dreams of shaking the POTUS's hand so some of his good luck would rub onto him. Andr e Roul, his childhood friend, wants to help him do that even as his father thinks he's being a fool. More than a story of a boyhood friendship or a window into Jamaican life in a modern world, it is also a story of how the different generations can view the same event differently.
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"Potus Touch is a unique, semi fictional account of the historic American president's visit to Jamaica. Fact is interwoven with fictional characters in a resplendent embroidery of a tale that could have been told in parts in any households in Jamaica. Potus Touch relates the journey of an inner city adolescent and his uptown friend who find themselves in the face of immediate and longstanding struggles. It is about recent history, Jamaican culture meeting with American culture, ghettos and suburbs, friendship, choices, love lost, found, and maintained, sex, adolescent complexities, ganja, child abuse, the search of a boy-man for a father figure, and the ways everything touches everyone."-- Provided by publisher.

From the moment the announcement went out about President Barack Obama's impending visit to Jamaica, Romar Bumbly dreams of shaking the POTUS's hand so some of his good luck would rub onto him. Andr e Roul, his childhood friend, wants to help him do that even as his father thinks he's being a fool. More than a story of a boyhood friendship or a window into Jamaican life in a modern world, it is also a story of how the different generations can view the same event differently.

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