Augustown

Author: Kei Miller
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Category: Fiction, Collections
Book Format: Paperback

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 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. AUGUSTOWN is a novel about inequality and aspiration, memory and myth, and the connections between people which can transcend these things but not always change them. It is a window onto a moment in Jamaican history, when the people sought to rise up above their lives and shine.

About Kei Miller
Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978. He is the author of three novels, THE SAME EARTH, THE LAST WARNER WOMAN and AUGUSTOWN, several collections of poetry and a book of short stories, THE FEAR OF STONES, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. In 2014, he won the prestigious Forward Prize for Poetry for his collection, THE CARTOGRAPHER TRIES TO MAP A WAY TO ZION. He teaches Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

(BK-9781474603607)

SKU BK-9781474603607
Barcode # 9781474603607
Brand Orion Publishing Co
Artist / Author Kei Miller
Shipping Weight 0.3000kg
Shipping Width 0.160m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.220m
Assembled Length 15.600m
Assembled Height 2.000m
Assembled Width 22.200m
Type Paperback

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