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Seeking solitude after a personal tragedy upends his world, American-born artist Chris, travels to his mother's homeland, Jamaica, in a bid to find peace. He expects to spend his time painting in solitude, coming to terms with his loss and the fractured relationship with his father. Instead, he discovers a new extended and complicated "family" with their own startling stories, including a love triangle. The people he meets help him to heal and...

A Million Aunties is an elegantly-written and emotionally engrossing work of fiction' Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

An elegantly written and emotionally engrossing work of fiction' Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other.

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In this collection of compelling short stories set in Jamaica and the United States, female characters struggle in a world filled with sexual violence, neglectful fathers, jealousy, lies, and prejudice. But in these diverse, subtly constructed stories, there is often a glimmer of hope as the women rely on their resilience, creativity, optimism, humor, and friendship to help them make their way. In these stories, gritty realism and irony are in...

Centering on young Jamaican artist and celebrity Dulcinea Evers, this novel begins with her surprising death from what is thought to be cancer--though the real cause is widely suspected to be something else. Her close friend, Cheryl, has one story, but as the narratives of other people in Dulci's life unfold and shocking details surrounding her are revealed, not even Cheryl's version turns out to be the whole truth. In the words of Dulci's ang...