Huracan Ashraf Abdelshafy the novel radiates backwards and

the novel radiates backwards and forwards in time

The poems range across the violent geography of Palestine and Iraq to the bright landscapes of the American Southwest

To live between languages

and the whole is enhanced by a series of apposite illustrations by Hartmut Eing

fiction and drama

Huracan Ashraf Abdelshafy the novel radiates backwards andFollowing her parents divorce, fifteen year old Leigh McCaulay left Jamaica for New York City. Fifteen years later, after her mothers death she returns to the island, in its 50th year of independence, to find her estranged father and the family secrets he holds. Back home, but a white Jamaican in a black Jamaica, she struggles to come to terms with her familys part in the slave trade. Loosely based on the authors own family history, Huracan explores