Publisher's Synopsis
Easter 1981. With Jamaica in a state of emergency, the Landing family gathers to bury one of its own. For Monica Landing, who had not spoken to her daughter in 15 years, the death of Lana is the cruellest kind of loss. For Lana's younger sister, Jean, it is an incomprehensible tragedy. All she knows is that her beloved homeland holds no future for her. But flight means making her way through the memories that engulf her, with perhaps the only man she has ever loved by her side. In this time of apocalypse, past and present merge in Jean's remembrances of childhood; in the voice of her ancestors that tell of hardship and struggle, love and survival...
