The Godmother and other Stories

A tremendous bristling collection, each story a firecracker blazing a trail through Guyana's heady contemporary history. As you read, you skip through the decades chasing the author's tantalising lead, discovering more with each voice.

The power and passion of a once colonised Guyana is thrown into new psychological and political turmoil as post colonialism creates its own domestic repression -- mistakes are repeated but by new people, corruption is rife and in amongst it all characters are boiling over with a struggle for identity, belief, meaning and cultural bonds. As these threads pull together, so there is a sense of equilibrium. Descriptions of rich Guyanese traditions soak deliciously through the pages with the warmth of a sweating mango.