· Paul Mendez. Rainbow Milk is based roughly on my own experiences. Like Jesse, my protagonist, I’m from the industrial West Midlands. From a working-class background and a black British background of Jamaican heritage, too. I grew up as a Jehovah’s witness in a very white working-class, right-wing community. · Book Review: Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez. Posted on 20 April November by misstenelle. From a Jehovah’s Witness in the Black Country to a sex worker in London, Paul Mendez’s semi-autobiographical novel Rainbow Milk is unlike the coming-of-age stories you’ve previously read. Nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy is a well-respected Jehovah’s Witness in the Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. · Paul Mendez’s debut novel, “Rainbow Milk,” traces the legacy of one family’s decision to leave the Caribbean.
Rainbow Milk is an important and ambitious book A bravura piece of writing, with echoes of Andrea Levy's Small IslandThink Barry Jenkins's Moonlight but set in the West Midlands, with Bibles instead of crack If Rainbow Milk is anything to go by, Mendez looks set to shake up the literary establishment in the most thrilling way. —i. Rainbow Milk is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Paul Mendez and first published by a Little, Brown and Company imprint in Mendez' debut novel tells the story of Jesse McCarthy, a Black gay man who flees his home after being outed by members of his community. Reception. In a review for The Irish Times, Sarah Gilmartin commented on the opening section of the novel, which narrates. In the "Acknowledgements" that follow Rainbow Milk, author Paul Mendez provides a thumbnail sketch of his personal journey: "Leaving the community of Jehovah's Witnesses behind at seventeen meant I lost a comfortable, extended Christian family; outside, I had no idea where to look for my true self, where that person was supposed to fit in this world, and who with.".
Paul Mendez’s Rainbow Milk: a bold and raw novel. This semi-autobiographical debut follows a young black man in London just after the millennium. Fireworks exploding against a red sky over the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben as part of New Year's Eve celebrations to mark the new Millenium, 31st December Paul Mendez. Rainbow Milk is based roughly on my own experiences. Like Jesse, my protagonist, I’m from the industrial West Midlands. From a working-class background and a black British background of Jamaican heritage, too. I grew up as a Jehovah’s witness in a very white working-class, right-wing community. Paul Mendez's RAINBOW MILK is a true revelation, an own voices triumph. Jesse was someone that anyone who is queer can relate to, and even more so if they are (or were) a Jehovah's Witness or were raised in a strict religious upbringing.
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