The Angels' Share: A Novel

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Everton Dorril, a rising star at a Jamaican beverage company, immediately fears the worst when his stepmother calls to tell him his father is missing. An 'outside' child born to a mistress, Everton deeply resents his father and hates the idea of jeopardising his career to find him, but feels he has no other choice. Everton reluctantly joins the quest. Fearing this is his last chance to find out more about the father who had no time for him when he was growing up, Everton sets out on an adventurous quest across Jamaica, hoping to make up lost time.

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The Angels' Share is Garfield Ellis's passport to the center of the literary world. Ellis is a writer of tremendous talent with that rare quality that can only be called bigness.
--Colin Channer, author of The Girl with the Golden Shoes

Ellis inhabits his story of a lost-and-found father and a host of engaging characters and breathtaking incidents with skill, humor, and honesty. A page-turning read.
--Olive Senior, author of Dancing Lessons

Ellis's compelling novel joins the literature of the Caribbean to bring an exciting new view of our outer and subterranean landscapes whose ghosts are not victims, and whose survivors join a legacy of heroes.
--Rachel Manley, author of In My Father's Shade

The Angels' Share is Garfield Ellis's passport to the center of the literary world. Ellis is a writer of tremendous talent with that rare quality that can only be called bigness.
--Colin Channer, author of The Girl with the Golden Shoes

Ellis inhabits his story of a lost-and-found father and a host of engaging characters and breathtaking incidents with skill, humor, and honesty. A page-turning read.
--Olive Senior, author of Dancing Lessons

Ellis's compelling novel joins the literature of the Caribbean to bring an exciting new view of our outer and subterranean landscapes whose ghosts are not victims, and whose survivors join a legacy of heroes.
--Rachel Manley, author of In My Father's Shade

Author Bio

Garfield Ellis grew up in Jamaica. He studied marine engineering, management, and public relations in Jamaica and completed his MFA at the University of Miami, as a James Michener Fellow. He is the author of five published books: Flaming Hearts, Wake Rasta, Such As I Have, For Nothing at All, and Till I'm Laid to Rest. His work has appeared in several international journals, including Callaloo, Calabash, the Caribbean Writer, Obsidian III, Anthurium, and Small Axe. Ellis has won the Una Marson Prize for Adult Literature for his collection Flaming Hearts (1997), and later for Till I'm Laid To Rest (2000). He also won the Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for Short Fiction in 2000 and 2005, and the 1990 Heinemann/Lifestyle Short Story Competition.