Kathleen Phillips Lewis

Sounds like a teenage fantasy and a bad tourist guide.

Revisado: 10-15-23

As a Trinidadian, and I mean this in the kindest of ways, I’m surprised this book actually was published. Let me just say, in future, lest you offend, it is of crucial importance to get the cultural context and imperialist ramifications right. I’m a Caribbean historian, educator, and cultural consultant. The next time you want to write a book about Trinidad or anywhere else in the Caribbean, please check in with me or any other Caribbean cultural expert first. And for those who read the story, please do likewise to get the correct pronunciation of place names. I’m still cringing.

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Life Renewed

Revisado: 06-07-15

The story is Nalo Hopkinson's best. i like how it brings together all cultures of the Caribbean and its African roots, and its African-American antecedents, how it takes the story of yet another male folkloric figure and feminizes it, giving the woman voice, empowering her to rescue herself from invisibility and anonymity, and how it turns death into life renewed. I like the performance of the reader because it brings the characters alive, representing their uniqueness, and staying true to their Caribbean accents, languages, and culture. I would, however, have liked her to sing those little folkloric ditties so well-known to everyone who has grown up in a Caribbean space.

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