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The Same Earth (2008)

by Kei Miller(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0297844792 (ISBN13: 9780297844792)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Orion Publishing

review 1: I can see why people compare this to Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe novels (village/community life) and Andrea Levy's Small Island (the complex Jamaica/England postcolonial relationship), but while this novel will seem somewhat familiar to readers of both, those comparisons don't quite nail what this novel is like. Still very enjoyable if you (like me) like stories about people and their relationships with each other and the place they were born--the cast of characters is appealing, with plenty of all-too-human foibles and humor. The ending, though, felt really abrupt--like the author ran out of paper/hard drive space with about 4 pages to go. Frustrating!
review 2: Kei Miller read poetry at the 2008 Calabash International Literary Festival in St. E... morelizabeth, Jamaica where I heard him for the first time. He's incredible. I am determined to read everything he's ever written. "The Same Earth" is Miller's only novel as far as I know. It's character driven and depicts the lives of a handful of people in a small community in St. Mary, Jamaica. The narrative, which is mostly composed of vignettes, follows the events which unfold in the small village as a pentacostal ferver sweeps the region. It also investigates rural attitudes towards homosexuality and the complicated relationship between urban v. rural, rich v. poor, U.K. v. Jamaica, and Christianity v. Kumina/Rastafari. The book ends simultaneously with disaster and triumph. less

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