{"id":1085,"date":"2020-05-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2020-05-06T22:19:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T21:19:47","slug":"black-flamingo-by-dean-atta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"Black Flamingo by Dean Atta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been desperate to read this book for ages &#8211; so decided to order a copy as a lockdown treat. And what a treat this book is &#8211; I am not sure that I can do it justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a stunning novel, in more ways than one. Just starting with the cover; what a beauty. The illustrations throughout the book are beautiful and bring the wonderful words to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We follow Michael in this coming of age story. Michael blossoms into the beautiful Black Flamingo &#8211; as his find his identity and place in the world as a gay man. This touches on so many subjects, like racism, homophobia, realtionships (of all kinds) and identity; all handled so well through the beautiful writing of Dean Atta. His perfect prose tells Michael&#8217;s story with such warmth and emotion, creating a beautiful page-turner that is impossible to put down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This lovely YA book is one that I will be recommending to everyone to read, as it is absolutely brilliant &#8211; I can already see a re-read on the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been desperate to read this book for ages &#8211; so decided to order a copy as a lockdown treat. And what a treat this book is &#8211; I am not sure that I can do it justice. This is a stunning novel, in more ways than one. Just starting with the cover; what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[528,577,578,36,137],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-a-year-in-books-2020","tag-black-flamingo","tag-dean-atta","tag-fiction","tag-ya-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jrc7-hv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}