How the Hiding Seek

By Foluke Taylor

Tina Turpin is troubled. Her everyday problems - controlling her bladder, combing her hair - are compounded by more existential concerns; Who exactly is she and how did she come to be here? Reluctant to make herself any more visible in 1970's Croydon, Tina seeks answers without asking questions and in this way stumbles upon notions of blackness, whiteness, sex, suicide, and the mysteries of mothers, fathers and lovers. While naivety and people watching are allies in Tina's self-education, secrecy, bureaucracy and the unspeakables of race, stand in her way.Embracing Audre Lorde's notion of bio-mythography, Tina's story is a range of voices that shake, rinse and spin the truth from a life lived without enough information to hold it steady. There is time travel, anthropomorphism, and 'geneological bewilderment'. There is memory stitched with imagination. There is hiding, seeking and finding out.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1728865158
• ISBN13: 9781728865157
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"