'Brimming with magic passion and history' New York Times'Captivating from the very first page'
Jennifer EganShortlisted for the Fiction category in the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean
LiteratureShortlisted for the Kitschies Red Tentacle AwardDiscovered amidst a tangle of sea
grape trees Moshe Fisher's provenance is a thing of myth and mystery his unusual appearance
with blueish translucent skin and duo-toned hair only serves to compound his mystique.
Equally feared and ridiculed by peers as he grows up he finds a surprising kindred soul in the
striking and bold Arrienne Christie but their complex relationship is fraught with obstacles
that tear them apart as powerfully as they are drawn together. Beginning in the late 1950s
four years before Jamaica's independence from colonial rule A Tall History of Sugar's epic
love story sweeps between a rural Jamaica scarred by the legacies of colonialism and an
England increasingly riven by race riots and class division.
