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From Publishers Weekly
Set in a small village on her native island, Grenadian author Buffong's debut novel vividly captures the rhythm of daily life there and the musical speech of the inhabitants. Flora Williams, the young narrator, chronicles the sometimes tragic experiences of her neighbors, schoolmates and relatives, such as the sudden death by illness of her little sister, Janice, and the indifference of her absentee father in St. Croix. But sorrow never weighs Flora down, for her spirits are uplifted by her intuitive, youthful mother whose tales she retells, including those about an alluring mermaid under the silk cotton tree and a deformed ghost of an old man near the cemetery. Flora herself perceptively and humorously describes her neighbors ("Grenada people always laughing and friendly, even when badmouthing and cursing each other") and contrasts them with tourists who "always running as if they have pougatae in they skin." One only wishes that Buffong had provided a glossary of island speech for those unfamiliar with it. Nevertheless, Flora is lively and sympathetic, as are the other characters she compellingly describes.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Told in the musical Granadian Creole voice of Flora Williams, Buffong's first full-length novel interweaves stories from a village steeped in tradition and mythic sensibility. Flora's youthful remembrances highlight the fears and half-understandings of childhood while emphasizing the importance of otherworldly forces, family, and community. Conversational in style, the storytelling is not chronological, but all of the story's threads are woven into place by the book's end. Buffong is herself Granadian and the author of one of the two stories of Granadian childhood found in Jump-Up-and-Kiss-Me (with Nellie Payne, London: Women's Pr., 1990.) Previously published by Women's Press, this book is recommended for all libraries.
- Marie F. Jones, Muskingum Coll. Lib., New Concord, Ohio
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Marie F. Jones, Muskingum Coll. Lib., New Concord, Ohio
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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