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The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim | Marcia Douglas
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The ancestors have awakened. Somebody has called them. The long-dead are stirring. Jah ways are mysterious ways. Is meBob. Bob Marley. Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching in Half Way Tree, Kingston. The ghosts of Marcus Garvey and King Edward VII are there too, drinking whiskey and playing solitaire. No one sees that Fall-down is Bob Marley, no one but his long-ago love, the deaf woman, Leenah, and, in the way of this otherworldly book, when Bob steps into the street each day, five years have passed. Jah ways are mysterious ways, from Kingstons ghettoes to London, from Haile Selaisses Ethiopian palace and back to Jamaica, Marcia Douglass mythical reworking of three hundred years of violence is a ticket to the deep world of Rasta history. This amazing novelin bass riddimcarries the reader on a voyage all the way to the gates of Zion.
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Real talk - I‘m not sure I completely understand everything I just read. But my god - it was beautiful! Douglas weaves Jamaican history, music, and Rastafarianism (something I knew nothing about and had to look up as I went along) into a story about Bob Marley dying then returning to Earth for seven days in the body of a homeless man. Totally strange and brilliant and glorious. Very experimental in format, so it‘s not for everyone, but I loved it.

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