“A Million Aunties” is a polyphonic narrative with a cast of characters who have experienced betrayal, disaster and loss at different stages of life. “He would have cousins, he would have neighbors, uncles - he would have aunties!” The Commonwealth Prize-winning, Jamaican-born author Alecia McKenzie’s tender new novel - an emotionally resonant ode to adopted families and community resilience - fills this gap. “That would never happen in the Caribbean,” one participant said. During a discussion of my own novel, “These Ghosts Are Family,” at a private book club, a group of Caribbean women told me that the one aspect of the story - which teems with the supernatural - that they’d found the most unbelievable was when a character dies and has his identity stolen because he has no family except for an aging grandmother to come looking for him.
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