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Wow! Powerful, stark, brutal, brilliant. This #chunkster shares a glimpse of Jamaica in the 60s-70s from multiple perspectives: a ghost, gangsters, journalists, the CIA, and a woman with various identities, following the story to NYC in the 80s. An epic examination of the impact that governments, criminals, and artists can have on a community that is just trying to get by. Dark and upsetting but worth it. #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

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A fun list, kind of weird given how it was created. Really didn't like the number one book.

Tempting.
(Can't believe it's been ten years since he won the Booker!)

#BookBinge #SchoolSubjectInTitle A highly praised title I need to read!

Cedella Marley adapted Bob Marley's song into a children's book! Soooo cute. 🎵 don't worry about a thing 🤗

🌹A toss between Fredrik Backman and Elena Ferrante
🌹tagged book - Brief History of seven killings
🌹Must I persist? Misogynistic mess.

I am 300 pages in and I really don't know what is going on. There are so many characters, and while some of them have interesting stories many are just a mess. There is a ghost that just talks gibberish with lots of violence against women, and another who is also ranting which about 50 pages ago I started to skip. I am not even at the half way mark and I just don't want to anymore.

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If you can settle in to the lilting patois, spoken by over half of the book‘s 75 characters, in narrating a jumbled retelling of the epic history behind Jamaica‘s troubled years, you‘re in for an extraordinarily rich experience. A Brief History takes fictional freedom in investigating who were, and what became of, the seven mysterious gunmen who attempted to assassinate Bob Marley right before his Smile Jamaica peace concert on Dec. 5, 1976.