A Tall History of Sugar

✍ Scribed by Curdella Forbes

• Book ID: 100103105
• Publisher: Akashic Books
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 431 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1617757810

✦ Synopsis

"Forbes lets her novel sing with all the languages of Jamaica and Britain. She has an uncanny knack for patois and dialect, including Jamaican English, the Queen's English, and everything in between. In some ways this book tells a story of a love too deep to become romantic. In other ways it's a novel of colonialism and its tragic aftermath of racism and economic despair. But most of all, the book is a journey. The characters so vivid, their depictions so intimate, that the skin of the pages themselves almost pulse beneath the reader's fingers. A powerful journey into the souls of two lovers, two countries, and the people caught in the wakes of empires."
--**Kirkus Reviews** , Starred review, selected for the 2019 Fall Preview (Adult Fiction)

"Forbes' novel, rich in metaphors and biblical and fairy-tale allusions, explores the cyclical nature of birth and death, and the overwhelming and terrifying power of love. It is also a forceful critique of...