The Rainmaker’s Mistake

Author: Erna Brodber
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction
Tag: Jamaica

“See you there. In the free.” This is the closing statement in Erna Brodber's fourth novel, The Rainmaker's Mistake (2007). In the novel, Brodber creatively imagines a past for the New World present, taking advantage of the space literary speculation and science fiction offer to create a counterhistory of the present. - Kelly Baker Josephs, Small Axe

About the Book

Depicts in fiction the spirit of the past by exploring how the formerly enslaved of Jamaica handle their freedom and arrive at understandings of issues and processes concerning their settlement and diaspora.

About the Author

Erna Brodber

Dr Erna Brodber has emerged as one of the leading contemporary writers from the Commonwealth Caribbean. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Order of Distinction, Commander Class from Jamaica, the D.Litt. from the UWI Mona and the Musgrave Gold Medal for Literature and Orature from the Institute of Jamaica. In 2017, she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for her fiction.

Her sociological research has focused on social history and biography, the study of inner-city communities and the respective roles of race, gender, culture and class in Caribbean society.

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