"The structure of Augustown' is pleasingly loose - a regular feature of novels written by poets, who seem to enjoy sauntering about once they've escaped the house of poetry. Each observant sentence in this gorgeous book is a gem."
The barely perceptible Caribbean lilt in Miller's prose exerts a hypnotic effect that is one of the great pleasures of Augustown.An expansive talent, of a writer stretching to catch up with his own curiosity and fertility.The center of the novel, Miller's portrait of Augustown, holds." Where the poet's touch in Augustown becomes detectable is in the novel's epigrammatic concision and in the loping, conversational cadence of so many of its sentences. "The richness and heft that is lost in the making of official accounts of the world is one of Miller's favorite themes. Marlon James, author of Man Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings It's the story of women haunted by women, and of the dangers of both keeping secrets and saying too much." But then it gets you with twists and turns, it seduces and shocks you even as it wrestles with the very nature of storytelling itself. "A deceptive spellbinder, a metafiction so disguised as old-time storytelling that you can almost hear the crackle of home fires as it starts.
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