Augustown /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Miller, Kei, author.
Edition:	First American Edition.
Imprint:	New York : Pantheon Books, 2016.
Description:	239 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Jamaica -- Fiction. Jamaica. Historical fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11366179

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ISBN:	9781101871614 (hardcover) 110187161X (hardcover) 9781101871621 (ebook)
Summary:	"In the wake of Marlon James's Man Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Augustown--set in the backlands of Jamaica--is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth. 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"--
Other form:	Online version: Miller, Kei, author. Augustown First American Edition. New York : Pantheon Books, 2017 9781101871621

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Summary:	11 April 1982: a smell is coming down John Golding Road right alongside the boy-child, something attached to him, like a spirit but not quite. Ma Taffy is growing worried. She knows that something is going to happen. Something terrible is going to pour out into the world. But if she can hold it off for just a little bit longer, she will. So she asks a question that surprises herself even as she asks it, "Kaia, I ever tell you bout the flying preacherman?"<br> <br> Set in the backlands of Jamaica, Augustown is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth.
Physical Description:	239 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9781101871614 110187161X 9781101871621