“The novel avoids the maudlin of some coming-of-age stories, and the magnetic descriptions of the father-and-son conversations and encounters and the Jamaican landscape add to the narrative. . . . Like Marcus J. Guillory’s Red, Now, and Laters, this book will appeal to lovers of Caribbean fiction, but all readers of relationship novels are sure to enjoy.”
—Library Journal, Starred review

Shortlisted for the 2015 Una Marson Award for Adult Literature, part of the Lignum Vitae Awards (Jamaica)

“Ellis writes with an easy grace, and his novel should find favor with readers who are interested in exploring world fiction.”
—Booklist

“A fast-paced story of father and son, packed with misadventures and set against the backdrop of contemporary Jamaica. . . . Ellis sets his story in 2008 Jamaica, where ‘old people are burnt in their homes for no reason at all; stubborn old men are slaughtered by gunmen’—where ‘it is so easy to get away with murder.’ This milieu adds a great deal of tension. . . . Well-constructed. . . . Admirable.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“Ellis . . . has an exquisitely unique writing voice and the world should not be without it. Nowhere is this more clear than in reading Ellis’s latest offering, The Angels’ Share. . . . [The novel] is a deeply moving meditation on regret—and the hope for redemption.”
—Toronto Star

“The Angels’ Share is storytelling at its best. . . . Imaginative and insightful, The Angels’ Share beckons us to look deeper, beyond the personas and the camouflage lives we construct.”
—Jamaica Gleaner

“It’s a novel about how children can never really know their parents, about the unique and often strange relationship between fathers and sons, about forgiveness and, most of all, about regret.”
—The Globe and Mail

“Canadian author Garfield Ellis takes readers on a dusty yet sensual Caribbean travelogue.”
—Quill & Quire

“This moving father/son story . . . [is] an enormously satisfying book.”
—Best New Fiction

“It takes a lot to stand out in the crowded field of Caribbean lit, but Garfield Ellis grabs mystery, family, love, hate, longing, and loss, boils them down to a Jamaica we don’t always see, and rises to the top.”
—Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

“The Angels’ Share is Garfield Ellis’s passport to the center of the literary world. Ellis is a writer of tremendous talent with that rare quality that can only be called bigness.”
—Colin Channer, author of The Girl with the Golden Shoes

“Ellis inhabits his story of a lost-and-found father and a host of engaging characters and breathtaking incidents with skill, humor, and honesty. A page-turning read.”
—Olive Senior, author of Dancing Lessons

“Ellis’s compelling novel joins the literature of the Caribbean to bring an exciting new view of our outer and subterranean landscapes whose ghosts are not victims, and whose survivors join a legacy of heroes.”
—Rachel Manley, author of In My Father’s Shade