Book Reading – Jamaican Writer, Geoffrey Philp, Reads “Who’s Your Daddy? In Coral Gables, June 9, 2009, Florida

Event: Who’s Your Daddy? in Coral Gables
      “Geoffrey Philp Reads @ Books & Books”
What: Listening Party
Host: Books & Books
Start Time: Tuesday, June 9 at 8:00pm
End Time: Tuesday, June 9 at 9:00pm
Where: Books & Books

Street: 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, Florida
Phone: (305) 442 4408

Book Description
Whether set in the Jamaican past or the Miami present, whether dealing wittily with sexual errantry, inventively with manifestations of the uncanny (when Brother Belnavis tangles with a vampire), or disturbingly with teenage homophobia, Geoffrey Philp’s second collection displays again the gold stamp of the born story-teller. But beyond their capacity to engage and entertain the reader, these are the multi-layered stories of a perceptive and humane observer of contemporary life. In particular, an acute empathy with troubled childhoods and adolescence offers adult readers a rewarding reconnection with the turbulence of earlier selves. There is great variety here – a lively mash-up of genres and styles. There are stories that work with quietly understated stealth – casual talk around a game of dominoes in ‘Beeline Against Babylon’ reveals a deep undercurrent of affection between father and son – and stories that have a ragga boldness and laugh-out-loud inventiveness, but throughout them all there runs the signature of an engaging personal voice.