Publication year 2026
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Conflict, Fear, Grief, Guilt, Hate & Anger, Loneliness, Revenge, Gender Identity, Masculinity, Mental Health, Sexual Identity, Death, The Past, Place, Teamwork, Community, Nation, Equality, Justice, Safety & Danger
Tags Literary Fiction, Contemporary Literature
Set in Kingston, Jamaica, across nearly two decades of homophobic violence, the novel follows a group of gay men brought together by a play and torn apart by a mob attack, tracing the long aftermath through journal entries, interview transcripts, letters, and interior monologue.The first section, "The Play," is the journal of Edmond "Eddy" Porteous, a mixed-race eighteen-year-old university student. In May 1988, Eddy answers a casting call and arrives at an old house on... Read The Disappearers Summary