Actor, musician, and author Asha Bromfield is bringing her debut novel to the big screen.
Bromfield is adapting Hurricane Summer, published last year by Wednesday Books, as a film, Deadline reports. Bromfield’s young adult novel follows an 18-year-old Black woman, whose parents immigrated from Jamaica to Canada, as she journeys to her ancestral homeland. A critic for Kirkus called the book “a coming-of-age story about discovery, loss, renewal, and longing.”
Bromfield is best known for her role as Josie and the Pussycats drummer Melody on the CW show Riverdale, as well as her performance in Locke & Key, the Netflix series based on Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez’s series of comic books.
The Hurricane Summer film is being produced by Neshama Entertainment. The company’s creative producer, Lauren MacKinlay, told Deadline, “We are thrilled to be on this journey with Asha, a talented actress who has proven herself to also be a gifted writer.”
Bromfield shared news of the project on Instagram, writing, “I am so excited to take the world by storm with this amazing team and spotlight the beauty and magic of Jamaica. The breathtaking journey of becoming a woman and the magic & power of the divine feminine. I know the ancestors are rejoicing. Grateful doesn’t even begin to describe it.”
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
