By Dareise A. Jones Special to the AFRO Rowana Abbensetts Dobson, writer, mental health advocate and entrepreneur published her first novel Departure Story this summer. Born in Brooklyn, New York to parents who immigrated from Guyana, the Abbensetts family moved to Queens when the author was in elementary school. Abbensetts Dobson describes her family as “Caribbean […]
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