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|title=Huracan

|author=Diana McCaulay

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9781845231965

|pages=287

|publisher=Peepal Tree Press

|date=May 2012

|website=http://www.dianamccaulay.com/

|summary=Huracan is the Taino word for storm (or possibly for the god of storms) and is clearly where we get hurricane from. Three hurricanes, a hundred years between each of them, form the backdrops for life-shifting decisions by three quite distinct members of the McCaulay bloodline. But this isn't a family saga, it's more a portrait of how modern Jamaica came to be and what, thus far, it has become.

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1986 – 30-year-old Leigh McCaulay (''White gal!'') is returning to Jamaica, the land of her birth. Her mother is dead and there is an estate to be settled. Her estranged father is somewhere on the island. Her brother is in England. This isn't the closest of grieving families. Leigh doesn't even know how her mother died. Indeed, she's a bit surprised to find out she'd gone back to Jamaica. The residual family had left the island not long after the father's desertion.

For a more light-hearted look at Jamaican history you could try [[The Long Song by Andrea Levy]], or for something a bit more gritty check out [[Pao by Kerry Young]]

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