Popisho, Magic Realism and Me: Leone Ross in conversation with Joy Francis

Libreria

Hear acclaimed author and editor Leone Ross discuss her third novel, This One Sky Day with Words of Colour’s Executive Director Joy Francis.

Hear acclaimed fiction writer and editor Leone Ross as she candidly discusses love, sex, magic realism, Jamaica, her eclectic writing journey and navigating the growing awards buzz surrounding her third novel This One Sky Day (Faber) with Words of Colour’s Executive Director Joy Francis.A labour of love, 15 years in the making, the novel has already become a collector’s item with its breathtakingly beautiful design that renders the book a work of art without a page being turned.Set on a fictional Caribbean archipelago called Popisho, This One Sky Day follows two star-crossed lovers finding their way back to one another over a single day. A sensual meditation on the nature of love and addiction, it is also a dazzling, funny and incisive disquisition on post-colonial politics.Described as ‘easily one of the most gorgeous and lavishly sprawling books of 2021’ by Nilanjana Roy (Financial Times) and ‘a woozily atmospheric magic realist novel peopled by a cast of quirky, unforgettable characters’ (Waterstones), Leone admits that the book ‘is about longing and addiction’ and ‘the bad choices we make that we can change’.Leone will read from This One Sky Day and there will be an audience Q&amp;A. Guests will be able to purchase copies of the book from award-winning independent bookstore Libreria.About Leone RossLeone Ross is a fiction writer, editor and academic. She was born in England and grew up in Jamaica. Her first novel, All the Blood Is Red (ARP), was longlisted for the Orange Prize, and her second novel, Orange Laughter (ARP/Anchor), was named by Wasafiri magazine as one of the most influential British novels of the last twenty-five years. Ross’s first short-story collection, Come Let Us Sing Anyway (Peepal Tree), was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize and shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize in 2018. Her work has also been shortlisted for the V. S. Pritchett Prize. She is a senior fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

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