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Wow! Powerful, stark, brutal, brilliant. This #chunkster shares a glimpse of Jamaica in the 60s-70s from multiple perspectives: a ghost, gangsters, journalists, the CIA, and a woman with various identities, following the story to NYC in the 80s. An epic examination of the impact that governments, criminals, and artists can have on a community that is just trying to get by. Dark and upsetting but worth it.
Epic in both the grand sense and just very long. There is a lot of fat in the book and not sure why it wasn't edited to be tighter. Even so, it's a really good read with well-drawn characters, lots of action and many bodies.
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Not really my type of book as it jumps from time frame to time frame (70's through 90's)in Jamaica with a cast of unsavory characters. Well written nonetheless.
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