Fiction. BLACK MARKS is the story of Georgette Collins, who grew up between worlds-black and white, gay and straight, wealthy and working class, West Indian and American. Georgette attempts to reconstruct her splintered past: from her Jamaican childhood to her teenage immersion in Boston and New York nightlife, and more recently, into the reclusive silence of a library. Despite her struggles, Georgette's first-person voice is infectious, intelligent, funny and capable of both warmth and irony. "BLACK MARKS is an absorbing, highly imagined, and beautifully written novel. Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte rewards her readers with a brilliant interweaving of stories that capture a young woman's movement into and out of different worlds as she searches for identity and attemptes to make sense of her life" William Julius Wilson.