Andrew Sean Greer, All Things Considered, NPR " A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes is like those books you used to read under the covers with a flashlight, only infinitely more delicious and macabre." Also, it's funny." -Emily Temple, Lit Hub, "20 Short Novels to Stay Up All Night Reading" "A surprisingly terrifying short novel about children kidnapped by pirates, elevated from its silliness by surprising moments of violence and introspection, as well as repeated flourishes of literary brilliance.
I felt just like I did as a kid." - Andrew Sean Greer, All Things Considered, NPR "During one snowy day, I read the whole book in one gulp. "This brilliant, gorgeously written, highly entertaining, and apparently light-hearted idyll quickly reveals its true nature as a powerful and profoundly disquieting meditation on the meaning of loyalty and betrayal, innocence and corruption, truth and deception." - Francine Prose, Elle
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