The June 2025 selection for the Radio Bookclub is The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive: Being Dreamity, Algoriddims, Chants & Riffs, the latest book by author Marcia Douglas.
The book weaves together stories from the past with the present day. It follows a young woman, known to the reader only as 20A, who is fleeing immigration officers in the United States, and combines it with the stories of many other lives, including that of an enslaved woman fleeing her captors in Jamaica.
The stories are juxtaposed against botanical, animal, and planetary migrations.
This episode was taped in front of a live audience at the Boulder Bookstore on May 13, 2025.
This episode was broadcast on KGNU on June 27 at 9 am. Listen to more of our conversation with Marcia Douglas where she answers questions from the audience at the Boulder Book Store in our podcast Afterhours at the Radio Bookclub.
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Radio Bookclub: The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive Maeve Conran
Subscribe to our Radio Book Club Series on iTunes to get new editions and web-only content. Also on Spotify and Stitcher. The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore. Every month, Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer at the Boulder Bookstore, selects a book to inspire listeners to read along together.
