Before it comes, before the end of the day, this wildly imaginative narrative will take us across the islands, their history, and into the lives of unforgettable characters. And graffiti messages from an unknown source are asking hard questions. The governor’s daughter, Sonteine, is getting married, her father demanding a feast out of turn. Anise, his long lost love, is on a march toward reckoning with her healing powers. Xavier Redchoose is the macaenus of his generation, anointed by the gods to make each resident one perfect meal when the time is right. Inspired by the author's Jamaican homeland, inflected with rhythms and textures of an amalgam of languages, it is a dazzling, major work of fiction, in. A place of stunning beauty and incorrigible mischief, destiny and mystery, it is also a place in need of change. Popisho is a masterful delight: a playful love story, a portrait of community, a boldly sensual meditation on desire and addiction, and a critique of the legacies of corruption and colonialism. Somewhere far away- or maybe right nearby- lies an archipelago called Popisho. From the gods: a thing that felt so inexpressibly your own. Everyone in Popisho was born with a little something… The local name for it was cors. A sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are broken, and love awaits. Eowyn Ivey, The New York Times Book ReviewAn uproarious, sensual novel, Leone Rosss Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate.
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