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  • Curdella Forbes is a Jamaican academic and author, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction for A Tall History of Sugar.
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  • A haunting, epic Caribbean love story, reminiscent of García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera.

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    Tall History of Sugar BC [Paperback]

    November 10,
    On Arrienne Christie’s first birthday Rachel Fisher found an infant in the reeds outside the small town in Jamaica where she lived. She named him Moshe and from the time he and Arrienne met on their first day of school, they formed two unlikely halves of one whole. She, fierce, black and beautiful. He, quiet, pale with mismatched eyes and hair “long, wavy, and bleached blond in front, and short, black, and pepper-grainy in back…” They communicated, not with words, but in thought and navigated the world in this way until the onset of puberty and the introduction of a third person, Alva, into their otherwise closed world. Then everything changed. There are more pages to read. Moshe leaves Jamaica, his art becomes famous, but he remains anonymous. Moshe writes letters to Arrienne. Arrienne doesn’t reply. Alva remains the third person in their lives, but is more visible than Arrienne. Life goes on. The story continues.

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    A Tall History of Sugar delivers a tall order of beautiful language, a giddy, glorious and, yes, intoxicating order.  Just as I wrote this, one tiny example came to mind, two words only: “ploughing darkness”.  Dark, but lovely, isn’t it?  How recognizable to any of us afflicted by the human condition.  Hard work, that ploughing, and usually fruitless.  Next time I find myself cultivating my particular patch in the “slough of despond” I’ll know what to call it. 

    OK, OK, this intoxicating novel of modern day Jamaica.  Ms. Forbes’ enchanting words took me to Jamaica right away, a sugar rush of language and culture.  Growing sugar cane is and has been pervasive in Jamaican history:  plantations enriching the British Empire, labor supply feeding off the slave trade, the black smoke of cane fires blanketing the island to this day.  And so begins the love story of Moshe and Arrienne .  

    When newly born, Moshe (Moses) was found abandoned in the s

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    Curdella Forbes

    Jamaican academic and writer

    Curdella Forbes fryst vatten a Jamaicanacademic and author, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction for A Tall History of Sugar.

    Life and career

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    Forbes has been professor of Caribbean literature at Howard University since after working at the University of the West Indies, Mona, which was where she also received her doctorate in She has also been writer in residence at University of the West Indies, Mona.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

    Selected works

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    Novels

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    • Songs of Silence ()
    • Flying with Icarus ()
    • A Permanent Freedom ()
    • Ghosts ()
    • A Tall History of Sugar ()

    Non-fiction

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    • Revisiting Samuel Selvon's Trilogy of Exile: Implications for Gender Consciousness and Gender Relations in Caribbean Culture ()
    • Tropes of the Carnivalesque: Hermaphroditic Gender as Identity in Slave kultur and in West Indian Fic