Leigh McCaulay left Jamaica for New York at fifteen following her parents divorce. In the wake of her mothers death fifteen years later, she returns to the island to find her estranged father and the family secrets he holds. Her story is told against the background of two other McCaulays who arrived in Jamaica in the 18th and 19th centuries. As a white Jamaican, Leigh has to think about her own belonging.Back In Jamaica after years away, Leigh McCaulay encounters the familiarity of home along with the strangeness of being white in a black country, and struggles with guilt and confusion over her part in an oppressive history of white slave owners and black slaves. As Leigh begins to make an adult life on the island, she learns of her ancestors Zachary Macaulay, a Scot sent as a young man to be a bookkeeper on a sugar plantation in 18th century Jamaica who, after witnessing and participating in the brutality of slavery, becomes an abolitionist and John Macaulay, a missionary who comes to Jamaica in the 19th century to save souls and ends up questioning the foundations of his beliefs.Part historical and part contemporary literary fiction, loosely based on the authors own family history, Huracan explores how we navigate the inequalities and privileges we are born to and the possibilities for connectedness and social transformation in everyday contemporary life. But it is also the story of an islands independence of the people who came (those who prospered and those who were...

Binding: Paperback;276 pages; Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd; Classification: FV; Weight: 474 g; Dimensions: 134 x 207 x 24

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