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Your Corner Dark
Desmond Hall
Ages: 14+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Caitlyn Dlouhy/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-5344-6071-3
Keywords: Jamaica, violence, father/son relationships, drugs, Rasta
Frankie longs to leave Jamaica and take advantage of his US college scholarship, but then becomes enmeshed in family criminal and political activities in order to save his father, who has been shot.