A Brief History of Seven Killings

by Marlon James

Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time. Dead people see and wait.

He will live to see them make him a national hero and he will die the only person thinking he had failed. That’s what happens when you personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device.

I tell you, the Cold War isn’t even over and I miss it already.