What do you think of when you think of contemporary Jamaica? I bet it’s not what Gillian Royes makes you think about in her Shad series. Shadrack Myers is a Jamaican bar tender far off the beaten tourist track in the small town of Largo Bay. Largo’s one hotel was destroyed in a hurricane and now the only industry left is fishing or scamming and minding one another’s business. Shad is especially good at that last one.
Book Review
The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman Living in Vietnam
The House on Dream Street had given me the secret code! apparently, “không Biét ān” was some sort of epicurean safe-word when living in Vietnam!
Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
If you expect a short novel to also be light or superficial, Winter’s Bone will disappoint you. Don’t think of it as a “quick read” think of it as a “family saga concentrate.”