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Augustown

Kei Miller
4.30/5 (2777 ratings)
From the winner of the Forward Prize, Augustown is a magical and haunting novel set in the underbelly of Jamaica.

Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear running through her. While they wait for his mama to come home from work, Ma Taffy recalls the story of the flying preacherman and a great thing that did not happen. A poor suburban sprawl in the Jamaican heartland, Augustown is a place where many things that should happen don’t, and plenty of things that shouldn’t happen do. For the story of Kaia leads back to another momentous day in Jamaican history, the birth of the Rastafari and the desire for a better life.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
368 pages
Publication:
2016
Publisher:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1474603602
ISBN13:
9781474603607
kindle Asin:
B01LKCVUWI

Augustown

Kei Miller
4.30/5 (2777 ratings)
From the winner of the Forward Prize, Augustown is a magical and haunting novel set in the underbelly of Jamaica.

Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear running through her. While they wait for his mama to come home from work, Ma Taffy recalls the story of the flying preacherman and a great thing that did not happen. A poor suburban sprawl in the Jamaican heartland, Augustown is a place where many things that should happen don’t, and plenty of things that shouldn’t happen do. For the story of Kaia leads back to another momentous day in Jamaican history, the birth of the Rastafari and the desire for a better life.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
368 pages
Publication:
2016
Publisher:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1474603602
ISBN13:
9781474603607
kindle Asin:
B01LKCVUWI