Poet Lemn Sissay’s My Name is Why: a powerful memoir of a childhood in the care system
In Amharic, “Lemn” means “Why?” – and Sissay spends his book trying to answer that question. Why were he and…
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In Amharic, “Lemn” means “Why?” – and Sissay spends his book trying to answer that question. Why were he and…
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