Growing up in 1970s England, Salena Godden stood out. Her mother was
Jamaican and her father was an Irish jazz musician who mysteriously
disappeared from her life when she was very young.
In her memoir, Springfield Road,
the writer, poet and musician tells the story of finding her personal
identity, beginning with the word she made up to describe her race:
Jamish.
"It's kind of ... a mix of being Jamaican, Irish, English," she tells NPR's Arun Rath. "It's the name I gave myself."
Springfield Road is published by Unbound Books
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