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Augustown

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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?"
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.

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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: May 23, 2017

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781101871621
  • File size: 686 KB
  • Release date: May 23, 2017

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781101871621
  • File size: 686 KB
  • Release date: May 23, 2017

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Kindle Book
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subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:940
Text Difficulty:4-6

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?"
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.

Expand title description text