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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 Kaia's 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.

©2016 Kei Miller (P)2016 Orion Publishing Group Caribbean Creators Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature
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This book is enthralling, Funny,moving. I could almost see everything that happened. Brilliant read and would recommend.

Amazing

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I could hardly stand to stop listening: the story and the performance, drew me in and I was there, in Jamaica, smelling, tasting, hearing and feeling the stories of these extraordinary ordinary lives. I've no doubt I will listen again.

Stunning

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Wow what a great story, I felt sad, happy, angry, cried. Highly recommended. I love the mix of accents.

Great! Great story, it's very moving

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Amazing story didn’t want it to end! Very Well written and very well read! Absolute Brilliance

Brilliant Just Brilliant

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exceptionally well written and performed, took me back to my homeland and it was also educational. I would definitely recommend this book and author to my family and friends.

exceptional

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