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  • Augustown

  • Written by: Kei Miller
  • Narrated by: Dona Croll
  • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Augustown

Written by: Kei Miller
Narrated by: Dona Croll
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Publisher's Summary

In the wake of Marlon James' 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.

©2016 Kei Miller (P)2016 Orion Publishing Group
Historical Fiction World Literature Literary Fiction Genre Fiction
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  • JL
  • 2020-03-01

Loved the story, loved the narration!

It is rare to find a Jamaican narrator who can do a variety of Jamaican accents! She has the upper St. Andrew accent down packed!
Thank you!

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