The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim

"Is me--Bob. Bob Marley." Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching in Half Way Tree, Kingston. The ghosts of Marcus Garvey and King Edward VII are there too, drinking whiskey and playing solitaire. No one sees that Fall-down is Bob Marley, no one but his long-ago love, the deaf woman, Leenah, and, in the way of this otherworldly book, when Bob steps into the street each day, five years have passed. Jah ways are mysterious ways, from Kingston's ghettoes to London, from Haile Selaisse's Ethiopian palace and back to Jamaica, Marcia Douglas's mythical reworking of three hundred years of violence is a ticket to the deep world of Rasta history. This amazing novel--in bass riddim--carries the reader on a voyage all the way to the gates of Zion.

Author: Marcia Douglas
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 07/31/2018
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780811227865

About the Author
Douglas, Marcia: - MARCIA DOUGLAS is the author of novels and poems and performs the one-woman show, "Natural Her-Story." She teaches creative writing and Caribbean literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her The Marvellous Equations of the Dread was longlisted for the 2016 Republic of Consciousness Prize and the 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.