Name of the book: Disposable People: Inspired by true
events [Kindle
Edition]
Author:
Ezekel Alan
Publisher:
Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
What's the book about?
Disposable People is the coming of age novel about
Kenny Lovelace, who grew up in a small village in Jamaica-- "that hateful
f**king place."
Why am I reading the book?
Disposable People is the Caribbean regional winner of
the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize.
Quote(s)from the book:
"Sometimes
he smiled, revealing a set of teeth that a cosmetic dentist looking for a
challenge would die for."
"The
newly acqired knowledge that ethics was a foreign language that few people
spoke turned out to be very enlightening."
"There
are some people that, when they smile with the Universe, the Universe smiles
back at them, and may even strike up a conversation. There are other people
who, when they smile with the Universe, the Universe simply nods a slight
acknowledgment. And then there are those people who, when they smile at the
Universe, the Universe tells profanity at them like, "What the fuck you
smiling at nigga?"
"This
is how I came to see, for the first time, not my papa and mama, not my aunts and
uncles, not Tommy and Brian and all, but instead just a graveyard full of
disposable people, some of whose graves were now being reused to bury the newly
dead."
Where to
buy: http://www.amazon.com/Disposable-People-Inspired-events-ebook/dp/B007C653RU/ref=tmm_kin_title_0
Ezekel Alan
is a Jamaican consultant working in Asia. He lives with his wife and kids, and
has a good reliable dog. Disposable
People is his debut novel which was a Regional Winner for the 2013
Commonwealth Book Prize. Ezekel blogs at www.ezekelalan.com.
Highly Recommended: 4 1/2 out of 5
Mary Hanna's review: http://ezekelalan.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/observerreview.pdf
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