Garfield EllisCritiques

A really good father/son relationship story. Set on the island of Jamaica. Fast paced with lots of local color.½

A thirty seven year old man is shanghaied into a road trip by his sly father. The father is on a trip to meet a woman he hasn't seen or talked to for thirty-five years. It turns into a trip of discovery as the reason for the trip becomes murky and there are a series of mishaps. I really liked the book. It's narrated in the first person by the son, using standard English with the dialog in Jamaican dialog (which is easy to follow). The contrast between the apparently laid back attitude of the father and the must-have-a-schedule feelings of the sun creates a lot of problems and is quite humorous at times. It effeminately has an island feel to it.
I'd like to read something more by Garfield Ellis.

This was a pretty good book. I don't know that I would recommend it but I wouldn't tell you not to read it either. A good story about the love of a son for his father. Interesting enough to keep reading but not a can't put this one down book either. Love the Jamaican accent so found the dialogue to be enjoyable.

This was an interesting and touching story of a father and son's relationship. Is it love? obligation? Perhaps a week traveling together on the father's quest will sort things out for each of them.

The author's prose is poetic and evocative. However, the Jamaican syntax took a bit of getting used to yet contributed to the Caribbean feel of the story. The characters are well developed and the interpersonal relationships very believable. The shifting parent/child roles are presented and explored. Regardless of the frustration such a relationship presents, in the final analysis, it is precious and worth cherishing.

Caution: If graphic sex scenes offend, then this book may not be for you as there are several.

I am grateful to LibraryThing Early Reviewers' program and author Garfield Ellis for having provided a free advanced reader copy of this book. Their generosity, however, did not influence this review - the words of which are mine alone.

This book starts a little show but picks up and a pretty good read. A son wants answers from his father to the questions he wrote down as a young boy and keeps folded up in his pocket. He gets his chance when he goes on a road trip with his father looking for a 'lost love' his father wants to see after 35 years. The boy's love for his father shows throughout the book and finally in the end he realizes the feeling is mutual.

This was my first Caribbean novel. Because of that first, it took me awhile to get used to the language and to fully appreciate the conversations between the characters. I found the story to be engaging and the characters to be human; just like all of us, they were flawed but trying to find their way. The father-son relationship issue that is the center of the story was very realistic and well developed. All in all, an enjoyable read!½

This was a book I received from Early Reviewers. The book is set in Jamaica, and is about a trip Everton ends up taking with his father. I liked it, It ought it would be more of a mystery, where was his father, instead it was more of a journey of discovery, Discovering both who his Father is/was and who he is. The writing was good, the dialogue threw me off some, but I got used to it. I'm not sure this would be a book I would recommend, but I wouldn't say don't read it either.

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its about how jamacians are nannuzine. and its about how the father and son can't get along because he's questioning his sexauality.