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Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
FINALIST FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE Named a Most Anticipated Book by The Washington Post, Bustle, The Millions, and The Chicago Review of Books A] powerful debut. --The Washington Post An exceptional and stunningly original novel by a major new writer. --Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, and self-discovery that vibrates with the liberating power of music Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she goes raving with her friends, the Tombstone Estate gyals, at The Crypt, an underground dub reggae club in their industrial town on the outskirts of London. Raised by her distant father after her mother's disappearance when she was a girl, Yamaye craves the oblivion of sound - a chance to escape into the rhythms of those smoke-filled nights, to discover who she really is in the dance-hall darkness. When Yamaye meets Moose, a soulful carpenter who shares her Jamaican heritage, a path toward a different kind of future seems to open. But then, Babylon rushes in. In a devastating cascade of violence that pits state power against her loved ones and her community, Yamaye loses everything. Friendless and adrift, she embarks on a dramatic journey of transformation that takes her to the Bristol underworld and, finally, to Jamaica, where past and present collide with explosive consequences. The unforgettable story of one young woman's search for home, animated by a ferocity of vision, electrifying music, and the Jamaican spiritual imagination, Fire Rush is a blazing achievement from a brilliant voice in contemporary fiction.
Jacqueline Crooks is preoccupied with Caribbean migration and the supernatural and supranational stories that sustain the diaspora. Her stories have been shortlisted in the Asham Award and Wasafiri New Writing competitions and have appeared in Virago and Granta, the Woven Tale Press, and MsLexia. She has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593300534 |
| ISBN 10 | 059330053X |
| Title | Fire Rush |
| Author | Jacqueline Crooks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2023-04-18 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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