Bloomsbury presents Confrontations by Simone Atangana Bekono read by Ella Dacres
A bold unsettling surprisingly tender debut novel for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Nightcrawling
Salom Atabong is the sixteenyearold daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother living in the Netherlands She arrives at a juvenile detention center to start a sixmonth sentence for a violent crime which she did commit but does not regret Expected to visit with a racist psychologist and perform her apologies Salom refuses to atone But even if Salom could get home it would be no refuge her father has recently been diagnosed with liver cancer and her elder sister Miriams main preoccupation is to get out of the village as soon as possible
After months in the prison system she realizes she must come to terms with the real reason behind her rage
Raw and unsentimental yet lyrical Confrontations captures the paradoxical demands society makes on Black women the way communities schools and the prison system perpetuate racism and the cost of Black female defiance
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