The Rainmaker's Mistake

by Erna Brodber

Paperback

Published February 8, 2007

About the author

Erna Brodber (born 20 April 1940) is a Jamaican writer, sociologist and social activist.

Born in Woodside, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, she gained a B.A. from the University College of the West Indies, followed by an M.Sc and Ph.D. She subsequently worked as a civil servant, teacher, sociology lecturer, and at the Institute for Social and Economic Research in Mona, Jamaica.

She is the author of four novels: Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (1980), Myal (1988), Louisiana (1994) and The Rainmaker's Mistake (2007). She won the Caribbean and Canadian regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1989 for Myal. In 1999 she received the Jamaican Musgrave Gold Award for Literature and Orature. Brodber currently works as a freelance writer, researcher and lecturer in Jamaica. She is currently Writer in Residence at the University of the West Indies.

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Reviews

[Jonna Higgins-Freese]

This was avant -garde enough in form that I had trouble following it, so any review I would give would not be fair.

[Divia]

This was a brilliant novel that gave a different perspective on the Caribbean which was refreshing and truthful to an extent. It was very imaginative and unique. I liked the various perspectives as they told a lot.

However, it was a bit confusing at times and while I loved the beginning and the ending, I felt like the middle of the novel was slightly boring. Perhaps my feelings were because of the state of the characters in the story at that point.