The Ice Migration

Jacqueline Crooks

ISBN 10: 1845233581 / ISBN 13: 9781845233587

Published by Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2018

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # wbs2480722112

Synopsis:

The stories in this collection move around in time and place, but linked by the experiences of the descendants of a Jamaican family of mixed Indian and African heritage.

From Roaring River in rural Jamaica in 1908 where the descendants of African slaves make connections with new arrivals from Calcutta to work in the sugar cane fields, to Southall in 2013, where the Millers live alongside newer migrants from India, The Ice Migration is a poetic exploration of movement as central to the human condition, from the ancestors of the vanished Tainos in Jamaica who crossed the Behring Straits 40,000 years ago, who linger in spirit, to Tutus who is driven to separation from her family, to the constancy of moving on and ultimately return to Roaring River.

The people of Jacqueline Crooks stories are deeply enmeshed in their African/Indian Jamaican world of dreams, visions, duppies and spiritual presences that connect them across time and place. What they discover beyond the strangeness of change of place and the hostilities they encounter is that life remains defined by its common crises of birth, the complications of sexuality, sickness, old age, and death and the comforts of food, stories and memory.

About the Author: Jacqueline Crooks is a Jamaican-born writer. She writes about Caribbean migration and subcultures. She has been published by Granta, Virago and MsLexia.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Ice Migration
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good