Memory Gone Wild

Memory Gone Wild


MGW Quiz 010, Serpents in the Sun by, Hugh B. Cave

February 05, 2014

Quiz contains 3 cuts with 2 questions per cut. The Bennett family moved to Jamaica after inheriting a coffee plantation in the Blue Mountains. This novel covers three generations of their lives, loves, triumphs and failures as the build an amazing, profitable plantation, producing some of the finest coffee in the world, and then run afoul of history. This novel , in many ways, parallels the amazing life of it's author, Hugh B. Cave, who owned a plantation on the last road into the Blue Mountains in Jamaica, only to lose it to the government, along with the small fortune he'd built.This novel, published posthumously, was the last great work in the career of one of America's most prolific authors.