Miller is a name to watch.--The Independent
This is magical, lyrical, spellbinding writing.--Granta
Adamine Bustamante is born in one of Jamaica's last leper colonies. When
Adamine grows up, she discovers she has the gift of warning: the power
to protect, inspire, and terrify. But when she is sent to live in
England, her prophecies of impending disaster are met with a different
kind of fear--people think she is insane and lock her away in a mental
hospital.
Now an older woman, the spirited Adamine wants to tell her story. But
she must wrestle for the truth with the mysterious Mr. Writer Man, who
has a tale of his own to share, one that will cast Adamine's life in an
entirely new light. In a story about magic and migration, stories and
storytelling, and the New and Old Worlds, we discover it is never one
person who owns a story or has the right to tell it.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1978, Kei Miller is the author of The
Same Earth, winner of the Una Marson Prize for Literature; and Fear of
Stones, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for
Best First Book. His most recent poetry collection has been shortlisted
for the Jonathan Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Bocas Prize for Caribbean
Literature, and the Scottish Book of the Year Award. In 2008 he was an
International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa. Miller currently
divides his time between Jamaica and Scotland.
