Ross Leone - Popisho A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Bold iridescent Dazzling and shocking Ross's lyrical rhythmic writing is something to be savored Her voice sings out loud and pure. Eowyn Ivey The New York Times Book Review An uproarious sensual novel Leone Ross's Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere food is fate politics are broken and love awaits. Everyone in Popisho was born with a little something - something boy a little something extra. The local name was cors. Magic but more than magic. A gift nah? Yes. From the gods: a thing so inexpressibly your own. Somewhere far away or maybe right nearby lies an archipelago called Popisho. A place of stunning beauty and incorrigible mischief destiny and mystery it is also a place in need of change. Xavier Redchoose is the macaenus of his generation anointed by the gods to make each resident one perfect meal when the time is right. Anise his long - lost love is on a march toward reckoning with her healing powers. The governor's daughter Sonteine still hasn t come into her cors but her corrupt father is demanding the macaenus make a feast for her wedding. Meanwhile graffiti messages from an unknown source are asking hard questions. A storm is brewing. Before it comes before the end of the day this wildly imaginative narrative will take us across the islands through their history and into the lives of unforgettable characters. Leone Ross's Popisho is a masterful delight: a playful love story a portrait of community a boldly sensual meditation on desire and addiction and a critique of the legacies of corruption and colonialism. Inspired by the author's Jamaican homeland inflected with rhythms and textures of an amalgam of languages it is a dazzling major work of fiction.
Title: Popisho A Novel
Author(s): Ross Leone
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250829634
Pages: 480 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/1/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction