Huracan

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Huracan

In the wake of her mother's death, Leigh McCaulay returns to Jamaica after fifteen years away in New York to find her estranged father and discover whether she has a place she can call home. Not least she must re-engage with the complexities of being white in a black country, of being called to account for the oppressive history of white slave owners and black slaves.

Interwoven with Leigh's return are the stories of two earlier arrivals, both from Scotland--of the abolitionist Zachary Macaulay, who comes as a precocious youth of sixteen to work as a book-keeper on a sugar estate in 1786, and of John Macaulay who comes in 1886, a naive and sometimes self-deluding Baptist missionary, determined to bring light to the heathen.

For each of these arrivals there are discoveries to be made, often painful, about both Jamaica and themselves. Each must come to terms with the contradictions of a society immured in injustice, racial inequality and endemic violence; a landscape of heartbreaking beauty; amd a people who endure with an unquenchable urge for independence.
Country USA
Brand Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Manufacturer Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781845231965
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781845231965
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Manufacturer	Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781845231965
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781845231965
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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