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Marlon James is the author of The Disappearers, Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; the Booker Prize–winning A Brief History of Seven Killings; the National Book Award Finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf; Moon Witch, Spider King; The Book of Night Women; and John Crow’s Devil. More about this author >
From the publisher:
In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. Though strangers to one another, they share an inescapable truth: all of them are gay. And they live in a world that refuses to accept them.
One night the men are savagely beaten and one of them is killed. As their bodies heal, the survivors begin to face the hatred and contempt that the violence laid bare. Some try to ignore what happened. Others double down on retribution. Some disappear completely.
