Omens of Adversity is a profound critique of postcolonial temporality. The case study at its core is the collapse of the Grenada Revolution (1979-1983), a demise that, David Scott contends, signaled the end of an era of revolutionary socialist possibility, Examining texts and phenomena related to the Revolution and its fallout, Scott engages with enduring issues of political action and tragedy, generations and memory, liberalism and traditional justice, and the possibility of forgiveness. Ultimately, he argues that the palpable sense of the neoliberal present as time stalled, without hope for emancipatory futures, has had far-reaching effect on our conceptions of political action and justice. References: Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice