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Also by Jacqueline Crooks:

Fire Rush, April 2023
Hardcover / e-Book

Fire Rush
Jacqueline Crooks

A Novel

Viking
April 2023
On Sale: April 18, 2023
Featuring: Yamaye
320 pages
ISBN: 059330053X
EAN: 9780593300534
Kindle: B0B6Z4RC2W
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult

Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she goes raving with her friends, the “Tombstone Estate gyals,” at The Crypt, an underground dub reggae club in their industrial town on the outskirts of London. Raised by her distant father after her mother’s disappearance when she was a girl, Yamaye craves the oblivion of sound - a chance to escape into the rhythms of those smoke-filled nights, to discover who she really is in the dance-hall darkness.

When Yamaye meets Moose, a soulful carpenter who shares her Jamaican heritage, a path toward a different kind of future seems to open. But then, Babylon rushes in. In a devastating cascade of violence that pits state power against her loved ones and her community, Yamaye loses everything. Friendless and adrift, she embarks on a dramatic journey of transformation that takes her to the Bristol underworld and, finally, to Jamaica, where past and present collide with explosive consequences.

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