Marcia Douglas | The New York Review of Books

Marcia Douglas

Marcia Douglas’s novel, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread, will be published by New Directions in July 2018. She is also author of Notes From a Writer’s Book of Cures and Spells, and Madam Fate, as well as a poetry collection, Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. (April 2018)

Brown Girl in the Ring

There is a word Jamaicans use for home—“yard.” In Jamaica talk, “yard” refers to one’s living space, but may also refer to the whole island. But is home still home, even if your parents advise that you not return?

April 20, 2018