The Island of Forgetting, authored by Barbadian-Canadian Jasmine Sealy is a highly acclaimed novel;
Winner of the Amazon First Novel Award
Finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Award
Finalist for OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
How does memory become myth? How do lies become family lore? How do we escape the trauma of the past when the truth has been forgotten? Barbados, 1962. Lost soul Iapetus roams the island, scared and alone, driven mad after witnessing his father’s death at the hands of his mother and his older brother, Cronus. Just before Iapetus is lost forever, he has a son, but the baby is not enough to save him from himself—or his family’s secrets.
