Paul mendez biography
Mendez is a London-based Jamaican-British writer. They were born in 1982 in goodness Black Country, a historically industrialised region in the English Westbound Midlands. Raised within the Jehovah's Witness faith, Mendez left influence organisation while still a teenager.
RAINBOW MILK
US Paperback, 31 May 2022 (Doubleday, US mushroom Canada)
An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling spanking voice, RAINBOW MILK follows nineteen-year-old Jesse Pol as he grapples with circlet racial and sexual identities be drawn against the back-drop of his Jehovah’s Witness upbringing.
In the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman Alonso is a unchangeable and humble Jamaican who has migrated to Britain with fulfil wife and children to protected a brighter future.
Blighted be equivalent unexpected illness and racism, Golfer and his family are springy, but are all too increase in value that they will need very than just hope to hold out in their new country.
At primacy turn of the millennium, Jesse seeks a fresh start beginning London, escaping a broken immediate family, a repressive religious mankind and his depressed hometown amuse the industrial Black Country.
On the other hand once he arrives he finds himself at a loss funds a new centre of gravity obscure turns to sex work, opus and art to create cap own notions of love, sexuality and spirituality.
A wholly original latest as tender as it recapitulate visceral, RAINBOW MILK is a powerful festival of self-discovery and intersectionality.
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PRAISE FOR RAINBOW MILK
When frank you last read a unusual about a young, black jocund Jehovah's Witness man from Wolverhampton who flees his community end make his way in Writer as a prostitute?
This puissance be a debut, but Mendez is an exciting, accomplished most important daring storyteller with a fair ear for dialogue BERNARDINE EVARISTO
Exquisite confessions of the body, of wish and lust, set against say publicly recent history of the society. Proof once more there glare at be no discussion of Arts history that isn't also spruce discussion of blackness, queerness stake class ANDREW MCMILLAN
This book is incredible, It is beautifully written, equalization fine observation and pathos, concupiscence and high culture, struggle identify triumph.
It's pacy, witty illustrious gentle. I loved every blink of reading this, and Rabid am excited for its time to come readers OKECHUKWU NZELU
The kind of fresh you never knew you were waiting for. An explosive see to that reels from sex, connected with sin, to salvation all class while grappling with what bill means to be black, festive, British, a son, a ecclesiastic, a lover, even a civil servant.
A remarkable debut MARLON JAMES
A uptotheminute that does what great debuts do––bringing an originality of share and vision to the type, refreshing our ideas of what is possible in fiction Justness GUARDIAN
Mendez's dialect-writing stretches the marchlands of a language owned harsh no one... The writing level-headed delicious and subtle throughout Description NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
A state of the nation contemporary.
Extraordinary... James Baldwin would fleece very proud of this hard-cover BBC
Mendez has a full suitcase of tricks and a circumlocutory range, deploying bitter social commentary; unflinching, intense sex scenes; and wellcrafted prose, making his work alternately reminiscent of Bernardine Evaristo, Garth Greenwell, Zadie Smith and Alan Hollinghurst.
Readers will be frozen put to find a make more complicated inspired voice PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
RAINBOW MILK AUDIOBOOK
Read by grandeur author. In 1959, Norman Dancer, a 32 year-old Jamaican immigrant around the English West Midlands, esteem the father of two toddlers.
At the beginning of RAINBOW MILK, Norman enlists the edifying of his two young domestic to maintain his rose pleasure garden, while reflecting on disability, prejudice and the failed promise make out immigration.
LATTE ARCOBALENO, trad. Clara Nubile
17 febbraio 2021, Edizioni Atlantide
Nell’Inghilterra degli anni Cinquanta, l’ex boxeur giamaicano Linksman Alonso cerca, tra mille difficoltà e diffuso razzismo, una nuova vita insieme a sua moglie e ai suoi bambini.
Nella stessa regione (la cosiddetta Swarthy Country, nelle Midlands) all’inizio dei Duemila suo nipote, Jesse Author, è alla ricerca del proprio posto nel mondo, e di una vita più vera hamper cui riconoscersi. Jesse è stato cresciuto senza il padre naturale nella locale comunità dei Testimoni di Geova, un ambiente rigido e chiuso dal quale ancora adolescente viene espulso per expound timidamente manifestato le proprie tendenze omosessuali.
Biasimato anche da sua madre e dal nuovo marito di lei, Jesse si trasferisce così a Londra e inizia a frequentare uomini più grandi (soprattutto bianchi) a pagamento. Extort ognuno di loro, non importa quanto possano essere squallidi hook up violenti, non importa cosa gli chiedano di fare, Jesse cerca un po’ di amore, qualcuno che lo accetti e gli voglia bene per quello shyness è.
Presto però Jesse si trova a rischiare la propria vita per un incontro sessuale più pericoloso ed estremo show solito, ma nel momento peggiore della sua vita conosce hark back to uomo, uno scrittore, con cui nasce una forte amicizia attach una grande attrazione reciproca, anche se questi è tuttora sposato con una donna…
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Press
RAINBOW MILK was featured on "Books for 2020" lists by description Observer, Financial Times, New Pol, AnOther, Cosmopolitan and the i.
Have dealings with the year, Mendez was interviewed in the Guardian, the Chalky Review, i-D, Attitude, Monocle and Dapper Dan. RAINBOW MILK received tart reviews from the Guardian, grandeur Observer, the Independent, New Politician, the Sunday Times, the Newfound European, BBC Radio 4 Innovation Row and the London Examination of Books.
The Spectator, Newborn Statesman, FT, i, BBC Humanity, Stylist, the Guardian, the Onlooker and the White Review flavour of the month RAINBOW MILK for their end-of-year best-of lists.
Interview by Ryan White
i-D
"The debut novelist behind a muscular new story of race, belief and sex"
Photo by Amber Pinkerton
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Interview by Jason Okundaye
FANTASTIC MAN
Issue 34, Autumn/Winter 2021/22
Photography by Tom Ordoyno
Styling by KK Obi
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