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WINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE THE GREEN CARNATION PRIZE and the HISTORICAL WRITERS AWARD'Miller's storytelling is superb' SUNDAY TIMESOne April day in Augustown Jamaica Ma Taffy old and blind sits in her usual spot on the veranda No matter how the world tilts around her come hurricane or riot she knows everything that goes on in this small community Which is why when her six-year-old nephew returns home from school with his dreadlocks shorn she realises that trouble won't be far behind And so she tells him the story of Alexander Bedward the flying preacherman She remembers what happened to the Rastaman and his helper Bongo Moody; she thinks of Soft-Paw the leader of the Angola gang and what lies beneath her house For trouble is
brewing once more among the ramshackle lanes of Augustown and as Ma Taffy knows each day contains much more than its own hours or minutes or seconds In fact each day contains all of history
brewing once more among the ramshackle lanes of Augustown and as Ma Taffy knows each day contains much more than its own hours or minutes or seconds In fact each day contains all of history
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