Greenwichtown Book

Set in Jamaica, Greenwichtown is the story of Fay Myrtle, an innocent, young girl who lives in a shack outside a Jamaican plantation. An older sister takes her from the village to live in the inner-city ghettos of Greenwichtown. There she attends school, and her inner life thrives despite abuse by her sister and the squalor surrounding her. As she struggles to come of age, she is caught up in a web of betrayal and is devastated by the death of the man she loves. Unwilling to submit to her despair, especially for the sake of her newborn twins, Fay "goes foreign,"seeking a job as a domestic abroad, and relinquishing her babies to the care of her sister.Powerfully chronicling the lonely and tormented terrain that is the fate of many young island women who leave their children and families in order to financially support them, Joyce Palmer creates a forceful character whose reality transcends the page.Written in a voice all its own and with the veracity and strength of the best of Caribbean literature, Joyce Palmer writes with raw talent and true freshness, in a voice that's uncontrived, unselfconscious, and immediate.AUTHORBIO: Joyce Palmer is a 27 year-old Jamaican-American novelist who lives with her husband and twins in Florida.Read More