In Praise of Island Women: & Other Crimes
Celebrating womens capacity to endure lifes hardships with resilience, stoicism, and humor, this brilliant collection of short stories, meditations, and prose poems paints a vivid picture of life in the Caribbean. Touching on women of many ages and ethnicities, from towns and from the countryside, and in transitionescaping from the hard circumstances of island life and in search of material security in the United Statesthese engrossing stories demonstrate how even within Trinidads satirical and sometimes cynical culture, women are capable of developing a sense of self and community.
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Celebrating womens capacity to endure lifes hardships with resilience, stoicism, and humor, this brilliant collection of short stories, meditations, and prose poems paints a vivid picture of life in the Caribbean. Touching on women of many ages and ethnicities, from towns and from the countryside, and in transitionescaping from the hard circumstances of island life and in search of material security in the United Statesthese engrossing stories demonstrate how even within Trinidads satirical and sometimes cynical culture, women are capable of developing a sense of self and community.
