One of several excellent new releases from Coffee House Press in Minneapolis, available for order online and at your favorite new bookstores in Denver, Caribbean author Kei Miller’s “The Last Warner Woman” is the tale of Adamine Bustamante, born in one of Jamaica’s last leper colonies and gifted with the “warning”, to protect, inspire, and terrify. When she is sent to live in England, her prophecies of impending disaster inspire her fellows to lock her away in a home for the mad. Now aged, the spirited Adamine wants to tell her story. But she must wrestle for the truth with the mysterious “Mr. Writer Man”, who has a tale of his own to share, one that will cast Adamine’s life in an entirely new and different light. In a story about magic and migration, New and Old Worlds, we discover no one owns the right to tell a story. It’s the tale not the teller. Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1978, and currently dividing his time between Jamaica and Scotland, Kei Miller is the the author of The Same Earth, winner of the Una Marson Prize for Literature, and Fear of Stones, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book.
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