Strange Music

Strange Music by Laura Fish


Authors
Laura Fish
ISBN
9780224080859
Published
Released
01 / 07 / 2008
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
224
Dimensions
136 x 220 x 22mm

In 1837 an ailing Elizabeth Barrett is confined to bed, suffering debilitating illness.Longing for a return to health and mobility, she corresponds with friends, endures uncomfortable remedies, writes poetry and frets over her father and siblings. On the Barrett estate in Jamaica a Creole maidservant named Kaydia is struggling to save her child from the abusive attentions of the master.In the cane fields, indentured laborer and former slave Sheba mourns the loss of her lover. In this richly complex novel, Laura Fish recreates the worlds of three women whose lives are inextricably linked at a moment of crisis within the Barrett family.Moving from Torquay in Devon to Cinnamon Hill in Jamaica, IStrange Music /Iexplores the notion that history consists of multiple, even contradictory versions.Kaydia and Sheba narrate their stories in a distinctive patois, with a depth of emotion and experience that is heart-rending.Like Jamaica, they struggle to escape a tragic past but one which seems ever-present. Elizabeth is geographically and emotionally distant, at once consumed with domestic minutiae and, as she matures as a writer, painfully aware of the source of her wealth and privilege. This hugely ambitious and rewarding story marks the return of a writer gifted with an unforgettable lyrical voice.As Elizabeth, Kaydia and Sheba struggle, each in her own way, towards emancipation, Laura Fish evokes the inescapable violence of slavery in prose that immediate, consuming and ultimately redeeming.
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