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Leigh McCaulay left Jamaica for New York at fifteen following her parents' divorce. In the wake of her mother's death fifteen years later, she returns to the island to find her estranged father and…

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Leigh McCaulay left Jamaica for New York at fifteen following her parents' divorce. In the wake of her mother's death fifteen years later, she returns to the island to find her estranged father and the family secrets he holds. Her story is told against the background of two other McCaulays who arrived in Jamaica in the 18th and 19th centuries. As a white Jamaican, Leigh has to think about her own belonging.Back In Jamaica after years away, Leigh McCaulay encounters the familiarity of home along with the strangeness of being white in a black country, and struggles with guilt and confusion over her part in an oppressive history of white slave owners and black slaves.As Leigh begins to make an adult life on the island, she learns of her ancestors - Zachary Macaulay, a Scot sent as a young man to be a bookkeeper on a sugar plantation in 18th century Jamaica who, after

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