In this collection of short stories, meditations and prose poems, Brenda Flanagan celebrates the capacity of women to endure with resilience, stoicism and, frequently, humour. The stories give a vivid picture of an island very like Trinidad, across the past fifty years, touching on women of many ages and ethnicities, of women in town or country, or in flight from the hard circumstances of island life and in search of material security in the USA.
Above all, Brenda Flanagan penetrates to the heart of Trinidad's picong (satirical) culture, and the way that playing with the word sustains a sense of self and community relationship.
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