Black Marks (Akashic Books) vinyl “I set out to write

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Black Marks (Akashic Books) vinyl “I set out to writeBlack Marks is the story of Georgette Collins, who wakes up one day in her early thirties to discover she had no past. Everyone has had the experience of not quite fitting in at some point in their lives, but Georgette has grown up in between worlds: black and white, gay and straight, wealthy and working class, West Indian and American. Throughout, Georgette tries to piece together these fractured worlds from her grandmothers stories and her own