Yellow Is Not for Girls Like Me - June Aming

Excerpted from a novel in progress, June Aming’s chapbook debut Yellow Is Not for Girls Like Me takes us back to Trinidad in 1939, and the arrival of fifteen-year-old Elsie at the home of her aunt. Why has Elsie’s mother sent her away? Why does Aunt Fan treat her with such disdain? And how does the sad occasion of a neighbour’s death and wake become the moment for Elsie’s awakening into early womanhood?