The Department of Literatures in English, UWI, Mona, in association with West Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (WIACLALS), and the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts, launches The Rainmaker’s Mistake, the fourth novel by acclaimed Jamaican writer, Erna Brodber. The Launch takes place on Wednesday, May 16 at 6.00 pm, at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts.

The publication of The Rainmaker’s Mistake (New Beacon) is particularly timely as Jamaica marks the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade and the book explores the reaction of the ex-slaves to freedom during the post-emancipation period and issues concerning the understandings and processes relating to their diaspora, settlement and stunted growth”.

Dr. Brodber is a freelance lecturer and most recently a guest Lecturer in Creative Writing in the Department of Literatures in English. She received the award of a Gold Musgrave Medal in 1999 by, and in 2006 she became the first Jamaican recipient of the international Prince Claus Award.