โ Scribed by Garfield Ellis
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"The novel avoids the maudlin of some coming-of-age stories, and the magnetic descriptions of the father-and-son conversations and encounters and the Jamaican landscape add to the narrative....Like Marcus J. Guillory's Red, Now, and Laters , this book will appeal to lovers of Caribbean fiction, but all readers of relationship novels are sure to enjoy."
--Library Journal , Starred review
Shortlisted for the Una Marson Award for Adult Literature, part of Jamaica's Lignum Vitae Awards
"Ellis writes with an easy grace, and his novel should find favor with readers who are interested in exploring world fiction."
--Booklist
"A fast-paced story of father and son, packed with misadventures and set against the backdrop of contemporary Jamaica....Ellis sets his story in 2008 Jamaica, where "old people are burnt in their homes for no reason at all; stubborn old men are slaughtered by gunmen"--where "it is so easy to get away...
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