![]() Andrew founded by slaves freed in 1838." Instead, it is stuffed with the characters and stories of hardscrabble Augustown, a former hamlet on the outskirts of St. Reviewing Augustown for The New Yorker, Laura Miller contrasts the book to "the stereotype of a 'poet’s novel'-that is, it isn’t introspective, replete with long passages of description, and scant of plot. In Miller's reimagining, however, the preacher proves able to fly and people gather in the impoverished neighborhood of Augustown to see the miracle for themselves. The book is based on an historical incident from 1921 in which Baptist preacher Alexander Bedward told congregants he would physically fly up to heaven instead he was committed to an insane asylum. It is Miller's third novel he is also a poet. Augustown was published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2016 and by Pantheon Books in the US. Augustown is a 2016 novel by Jamaican writer Kei Miller. ![]()
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