The Island of Forgetting

"The Island of Forgetting is an engrossing saga of love, family and the undying past -- gorgeous at the sentence level and sweeping in both depth and scope. Jasmine Sealy is one of the most exciting and powerful new voices in fiction, and with this stunning debut she has crafted a moving world of a book, polyphonic and sprinkled throughout with fire." —  - Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise
"A stunning debut. The Island of Forgetting is a bold, passionate, and razor-sharp novel, exquisitely written and deeply moving. With great empathy and nuance, Jasmine Sealy explores family bonds and secret legacies and the sacrifices we make in their name. I couldn’t put this book down. Jasmine Sealy is an astonishing, fierce new talent in Canadian fiction."  — -Ayelet Tsabari, author of The Art of Leaving
"With The Island of Forgetting, Jasmine Sealy gifts us a moving and masterfully woven story of a family lineage wrought with secrets and their consequences. Sharply clever and deeply immersive, each of Sealy's characters, their choices, intimacies, and destinies will leave their scent on readers long after the last poignant page. At once heartbreaking and victorious, The Island of Forgetting is a viscerally compelling debut from an exceptional talent." — -Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread
“The Island of Forgetting is an epic novel of great elegance and empathy. Jasmine Sealy's nuanced portrait of love, loss and identity on a small Caribbean island is well-poised to become a classic of the Caribbean literary canon.”  — Cherie Jones, author of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
"The Island of Forgetting unpacks the layered existence of Barbados in its exploration of family secrets hidden from view by sun-splashed beaches, to reveal a world teeming as much from dread as hope, where the island remains a place of longing, of home, despite all that has been lost to history and to time."  — - Myriam J. A. Chancy, author of What Storm, What Thunder
"A brilliant richly absorbing tale on the repercussions of hidden familial legacies. A deeply evocative, stirring work."  — - Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch

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In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados.