This eccentric, capacious novel takes the reader on a surreal ride around a fictional archipelago
âThe book asserts the importance of interacting with our own unpredictable world with openness.â A beach near Port Antonio, Jamaica. Photograph: Westend61 GmbH/Alamy Stock Photo
âThe book asserts the importance of interacting with our own unpredictable world with openness.â A beach near Port Antonio, Jamaica. Photograph: Westend61 GmbH/Alamy Stock Photo
MichaelDonkor
Wed 21 Apr 2021 02.30 EDT
Although the fictional archipelago of Popisho in Leone Rossâs third novel is imbued with a Caribbean sensibility, it is an entirely original place. Here, clouds rain down torrents of physalises. Houses morph, stretch, bend over backwards to accommodate their inhabitantsâ whims. The citizens of Popisho are just as remarkable: each possesses a special power, or âcorsâ. Some islanders can converse with cats. Others walk through walls. Some have prehensile ta