What’s it like to live and work on a Caribbean island? Paradise, right? Think again.
Through Andy Gross’ collection of elegant essays and biting journal entries we glimpse the other side of paradise. Giving Good Ghost takes us beyond the sun, the surf, the "hey mon, no problem" cliché of modern Caribbean life to explore realities of race, colonialism, petty politics, corruption, cultural narcissism and alienation on the island of St. Maarten.
With prose intelligent as it is honest, by turns angry, hilarious, thoughtful, heart-rending, Gross spares no one—least of all himself—as with brutal honesty he skewers the hypocrisy he witnessed during the five years he spent as a ghost.
Giving Good Ghost is not chicken soup and it’s not for your soul. What it is is the truth—are you ready for that?
