Fire Rush

by Crooks, Jacqueline
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ISBN: 9780593300534
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A novel that vibrates with the liberating energy of music, Fire Rush transports readers to London's dub reggae scene at the dawn of the 80s--and into the life of Yamaye, an unforgettable young woman finding herself amid love, loss, and the rhythms of the underground

Raised in a housing project on the outskirts of London, Yamaye finds freedom and release in the dub reggae clubs where she raves with her sistren, Asase and Rumer, the self-proclaimed "Tombstone Estate gyals." Though Yamaye's mother disappeared when she was small, she can still hear her voice, sense her presence in the pulse of the bass and in recurrent visions of bodies and water. When the music is loud enough, she can almost drown out her father's surly presence in their small flat, and keep Babylon--the capitalist, colonialist world; in this case, Margaret Thatcher's England--at bay.

When Yamaye meets Moose, a soulful carpenter who shares her Jamaican heritage, a vision of a new life begins to coalesce. But then, Babylon rushes in. In a devastating cascade, she loses everything: Moose is murdered by a police officer, a riot erupts, and Asase is imprisoned for assault. Friendless and adrift, Yamaye flees to Bristol and plunges into the city's shadowy underworld, where her search for the truth about her mother collides with her efforts to find herself and, finally, a place to call home.

Fresh and mesmerizing, animated by a ferocity of spirit, electrifying music, and the Jamaican spiritual imagination, Fire Rush is a blazing, revelatory novel that reckons with hundreds of years of history while simultaneously grounding us in an incredibly visceral time and place.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Crooks, Jacqueline
  • ISBN: 9780593300534
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.81
  • Number Of Pages: 320
  • Publication Year: 2023
Language: English

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