Overview

Barbara Lalla’s beautifully written novel explores a universal question: when, where and how does one grow old with dignity. The intricate story unfolds in Jamaica and Trinidad and tells a moving and suspenseful tale of families dealing with ageing in a shifting culture, where British-colonial influences clash with modern Jamaican politics, and lawlessness is on the increase.

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"""The author skilfully delineates the separate characters through the nuances of their speech and memories, and draws a poignant portrait of educated middle-class Jamaicans from independence to the present. . . . Few if any works of Caribbean literature have described so thoroughly and so movingly the tragedies, great and small, of aging."" - Nicholas Laughlin, Editor, Caribbean Review of Books Barbara Lalla is Professor of Language"

The author skilfully delineates the separate characters through the nuances of their speech and memories, and draws a poignant portrait of educated middle-class Jamaicans from independence to the present. . . . Few if any works of Caribbean literature have described so thoroughly and so movingly the tragedies, great and small, of aging. - Nicholas Laughlin, Editor, Caribbean Review of Books Barbara Lalla is Professor of Language

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Barbara Lalla is Professor Emerita, Language and Literature, the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Her many publications include the novels Grounds for Tenure, Uncle Brother, Cascade, and Arch of Fire, and the scholarly works Postcolonialisms: Caribbean Rereading of Medieval English Discourse, Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival, the companion volumes Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole and Voices in Exile: Jamaican Texts of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (co-authored with Jean D'Costa), and Caribbean Literary Discourse (co-authored with Jean D'Costa and Velma Pollard).

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