BATTY BWOY is the coming of age story of Mark Palmer, a black, gay, Jamaican where “Boom bye bye inna batty bwoy head” has replaced the island’s motto “Out of many, one people.” The son of an overbearing, absentee mother, he is thrust into an environment that requires a thick skin from torments and socio-economic disparities. Suppressing his “gay tendencies” to detract being bashed or killed, he migrates to America and comes out in a world where he feels disenfranchised and arrested. As his life spirals out of control after making bad choices, he clings to desperate measures and finds hope.


BATTY BWOY will be released on April, 14, 2015. The hardcover first edition will be signed and available exclusively at www.maxarthurmantle.net .