Bivouac

"An examination of grief and politics in a deftly written novel set in 1980s Jamaica...Astonishing prose.—Kirkus Reviews"With...dreamlike sequences, this is best suited for readers who enjoy character studies as well as lovers of Jamaican fiction."—Booklist"Dawes examines the complicated terrain of grief with uncanny insight and spare, lucid prose. What unfolds is a story about a man, a family, and a country searching for answers and new hope."—Maaza Mengiste, author of Beneath the Lion's Gaze"Bivouac speaks in tongues so that the reader hears both the market and the courtroom, the orchestra of ancestral voices and the tone of individual conscience. Kwame Dawes's novel laughs and mourns, claps hands for the inventive communal spirit, and wrings those same hands as a result of political malfeasance. I was thrilled to see the writer channel his father's prose and summon pre-independence...