{"id":57286,"date":"2019-01-13T23:37:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T23:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57286"},"modified":"2019-01-13T23:41:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T23:41:19","slug":"the-ice-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57286","title":{"rendered":"The Ice Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peepaltreepress.com\/books\/ice-migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Ice Migration<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peepaltreepress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peepal Press<\/a><br \/>\n2018-05-31<br \/>\n224 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781845233587<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacquelinecrooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jacqueline Crooks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peepaltreepress.com\/books\/ice-migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive md-padding-right_lg sm-margin-bottom_xl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peepaltreepress.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/book_cover_large\/public\/9781845233587.jpg?itok=wkmre1EW\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The stories in this ambitious collection move around in time and place, linked by the experiences of the descendants of a Jamaican family of mixed Indian and African heritage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The stories in this collection move around in time and place, linked by the experiences of the descendants of a Jamaican family of mixed Indian and African heritage.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roaring_River_(Jamaica)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roaring River<\/a> in rural <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jamaica<\/a> in 1908 where the descendants of African slaves make connections with new arrivals from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kolkata\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Calcutta<\/a> to work in the sugar cane fields, to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southall<\/a> in 2013, where the Millers live alongside newer migrants from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">India<\/a>, <em>The Ice Migration<\/em> is a poetic exploration of movement as central to the human condition.<\/p>\n<p>Crooks\u2019 vision encompasses the ancestors of the vanished <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ta\u00edno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tainos<\/a> in Jamaica who crossed the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bering_Strait\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Behring Straits<\/a> 40,000 years ago, but who linger in spirit, and individuals like Tutus who is driven to separation from her family, to constantly moving on, but who ultimately makes a return to Roaring River.<\/p>\n<p>The people of Jacqueline Crooks\u2019 stories are deeply enmeshed in their African\/Indian Jamaican world of dreams, visions, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duppy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">duppies<\/a> and spiritual presences that connect them across time and place. What they discover beyond the strangeness of change of place and the hostilities they encounter is that life remains defined by its common crises \u2013 of birth, the complications of sexuality, sickness, old age, and death \u2013 and by the comforts of food, stories and memory.<\/p>\n<p>Individual stories have been shortlisted in the Asham Award and Wasafiri New Writing competitions and have appeared in: <em>Virago<\/em>, <em>Granta<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peepaltreepress.com\/books\/closure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Closure: Contemporary Black British short stories<\/em><\/a>, the Woven Tale Press, and <em>MsLexia<\/em>. <em>The Ice Migration<\/em> is Jacqueline Crooks&#8217; first book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stories in this ambitious collection move around in time and place, linked by the experiences of the descendants of a Jamaican family of mixed Indian and African heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,8,15,10],"tags":[29254,80,29255],"class_list":["post-57286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-uk","tag-jacqueline-crooks","tag-jamaica","tag-peepal-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57287,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57286\/revisions\/57287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}