Xystus writes of ‘not bearing grudges’, ‘because ultimately God is good’. Photo: Detail of book cover of My Life Story: A Child Of The Windrush Generation, by Xystus Sestus Marcell
My Life Story: A Child Of The Windrush Generation, by Xystus Sestus Marcell
Author: Xystus Sestus Marcell. Review by Anne M Jones
by Anne M Jones
22nd October 2021
This small book tells the story, in his own words, of a man who came to the east end of London from St Lucia, in 1972. Xystus Sestus Marcel’s name refers to the book of Exodus, a reminder of enslaved people coming into emancipation. He was fourteen when he arrived, full of hopes about ‘the mother country’.
