A pathologist is asked to lie about a boy killed on government
orders; a sister tries to make peace with the parents of the white
American girl her brother has murdered; a gangster makes his
posthumous lament: Trinidad in all its social tumult is ever
present in these stories, but so too are the lives of those with
private griefs: a woman mourning the still-birth of her baby; a
young mother with cancer facing her mortality. Millar's characters
come intensely alive at points of crisis, of existential threat.The
stories in this collection range wide: across different ethnic
communities; across rural and urban settings; across the moneyed
elite (and illicit new wealth) and the poor scrabbling for
survival; locals and expatriates; the certainties of rational
knowledge and the mysteries of the unseen and the uncanny.
Different locations in Trinidad are brought to the reader through a
precise and sensuous mapping of the country's fauna and
flora.Characters thread their way through different stories, but
what ties the collection together is Sharon Millar's distinctively
personal voice: cool, unsentimental and empathetic. If irony is the
only way to inscribe contemporary Trinidad, there is also room for
the possibility of redemption.
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