Author Information

Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978. He is the author of three novels, "The Same Earth," "The Last Warner Woman," and "Augustown," several collections of poetry, as well as a short story collection, "The Fear of Stones," which was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. In 2014, he won the prestigious Forward Prize for Poetry for his collection "The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion." He teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Blurb
Ma Taffy may be blind, but she sees everything. When her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, a deep sense of fear washes over her as she senses what he is feeling. While they wait for his mother to return from work, Ma Taffy recalls the story of the flying preacher and something significant that happened.