![]() ![]() "Down there is a dismal little valley on a dismal little island," he continues, an impoverished community of tin-roofed houses and a dry riverbed. "First you must imagine the sky," Miller writes, inviting readers to form a mental picture of the place. The novel opens with an excellent, extended descriptive passage, starting with an aerial view of the island and then moving in closer and closer. Miller's Augustown is a fictional valley based on the real August Town, Jamaica, today a suburb of Kingston. Kei Miller is a poet in addition to a novelist, so it's no surprise that his prose is full of beautiful descriptions as well as the enchanting rhythms of Jamaican patois. Augustown tells the stories of a Jamaican community scarred by violence but prone to magical happenings. ![]()
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