![]() ![]() The people are afraid of the jumbies and their reactions to the jumbies are based in that fear. Severine wants the island back for the jumbies, after all they were on this land long before people came. On this same day, Serverine, a beautiful woman dressed in green comes to the market. Corinne is on her way to the sell oranges at the market for the very first time and she chooses to empower herself by wearing a pair of her father’s coveralls. In her author’s notes, she describes the creatures as “every bad-thinking, sneaky, trick-loving creature that comes out at night with the purpose of causing trouble.” Many different types of jumbies find their way into Baptiste’s novel and none of them are there to do good.Īt the center of the story is Corinne La Mer, a young girl who lives alone with her father because her mother has died. Baptise, a native of Trinidad, is quite familiar with the folklore that surrounds jumbies. Rise of the Jumbies released in 2017 and The Jumbie God’s Revenge comes out this September. The Jumbies, her first book in this series, debuted in 2015. ![]() Tracey Baptiste has been writing nonfiction and for quite a while. ![]()
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