anyone have a recommendation for a book on jamaica similar to "banana shout" --- thought it captured the old negril ... and current TB pretty well ...
Recommend: The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezar-Thompson; The Pagoda by Patricia Powell
Also: One People by Guy Kennaway/who lives in and writes about Cousins Cove on the other side of Negril...
I agree re The True History of Paradise. I found The Pagoda to be LONG.
The Pagoda may be long, but real evocative. With a page turn, I could 'smell' the woodsmoke and 'see' inside the dim likkle shop in an instant. For me, it was like bringing back the old Mrs. Calder of Shaftston Plantation and her legendary Charlton Heston-style husband, the lord of that mountain, in days not that long ago.'Fire in the Cane' by the Bajan writer Glenville Lovett, who's now writing totally different urban novels, struck a similar chord.