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Reading & Discussion: Dr. Figueroa’s Limbo – A Novel About Jamaica
March 29, 2021 at 4:00 pm
“In Limbo, Esther Figueroa deftly navigates between steamy romance, backdoor deals and dangerous plunges into the inferno of Jamaica’s environmental disasters. But the novel’s other side is its tender and evocative celebration of love, friendship, place and belonging. The author (like her heroine) emerges triumphant at the end of this breathtaking limbo dance. Despite its darker themes, the overriding humor and irreverence make for an enjoyable read. Limbo is a page-turner that will make you want to start all over again when you come to the end. In Esther Figueroa’s skillful hands, the tropical paradise is in Limbo but not yet lost. It should evoke in every reader a passionate desire to redeem what is left clinging to the exposed roots.”
—Olive Senior, author of Dancing Lessons
“More than a novel or rather what a ‘novel’ cd or shd be – an xQuisitely serious nativist imaginary –composed in ‘standard’ narrative & Jamaica speak & angst & hope & vision, wit and an urgent sense of justice – breathing-till-it-burns – but cool knowledge of her crisis country and its people. Limbo is not just word-saying but a world-saving allegiance to what some people call The Green. Her description of the source of the Martha Brae (witch & river), is one of the most lyric & healing moments in Caribbean literature.”
—Kamau Brathwaite, Poet, Professor Emeritus Caribbean Lit/Culture, New York University