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Starred Review on July 1, 2014 | Fiction
Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, James (The Book of Night Women) offers a stunning fictional investigation of the attempted assassination of reggae star Bob Marley just days before Jamaica's 1976 general election and only 48 hours before he was scheduled to play the Smile Jamaica Concert. Surprisingly, though, Marley is not the center of the book—he's the Singer, on the periphery and hardly seen or heard. Instead, James g...Log In or Sign Up to Read More