Augustown by Miller, Kei

Augustown (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781101974094)

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Format: Paperback
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Augustown by Miller, Kei

Augustown

$16.00
Augustown by Miller, Kei

Augustown

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD FINALIST

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Slate - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews - Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

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. A teacher has cut off Kaia's dreadlocks--a violation of the family's Rastafari beliefs--and this single impulsive action will have ramifications that stretch throughout the entire community. Kaia's story brings back memories from Ma Taffy's youth, including the legend of the flying preacherman and his ties to the history of Jamaican oppression and resistance--all of which will reverberate forward to the present and change Augustown forever.

Vividly bringing to life Jamaica in the 1980s, Augustown follows one family's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth.

Author: Kei Miller
ISBN-10: 1101974095
ISBN-13: 9781101974094
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2018
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
By Kei Miller
By Kei Miller
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KEI MILLER is the author of two previous novels, several poetry collections, and Fear of Stones and Other Stories, which was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book. In 2014, he won the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection for The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion. Born in Jamaica, he lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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