A Boy from New Grounds: Resilience Against Erasure

By Glendon Jackson

Empire achieved removal, but not disappearance.

Born in 1972 on an island that has spent centuries refusing to disappear, Glendon Jackson grew up in New Grounds, Saint Vincent. He was a restless boy misread by school, rescued by a grandmother who put land beneath his feet, and called by a faith he wrote down in journals.

He became a nurse, a youth leader and a British Army nurse, then an Approved Mental Health Professional in the NHS, holding other people's liberty in his hands while an undiagnosed neurological difference and a lifetime of institutional misrecognition took their toll.

Told in twelve seasons, A Boy from New Grounds sets one life against the long history of the Kalinago, the Garifuna and the Caribbean diaspora: from La Soufri re and the Carib Wars to independence, migration to Britain and a late ADHD diagnosis.

For readers of:

Caribbean and Vincentian history and memoirGarifuna heritage and identityBlack British and Caribbean migration storiesnursing, NHS and mental health livesneurodiversity and late-diagnosed ADHD

It is a testimony of resilience, inheritance and the refusal to collude with one's own erasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1066929041
• ISBN13: 9781066929047
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: KAHSHE
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"