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01683aam a2200253Ii 4500 001 01521272CD7311EABC1FA90E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200724010019 008 171207t20182016nyu 000 f eng d 020 $a 9781101974094 020 $a 1101974095 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d CNEDM $d CIB $d OCLCF $d OCLCA $d CGP $d SILO 100 1 $a Miller, Kei, $e author. 245 10 $a Augustown / $c Kei Miller. 250 $a First Vintage Books edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, $c 2018. 300 $a 239 pages ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a "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"--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Prophets $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Jamaica $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20200724011348.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=01521272CD7311EABC1FA90E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search