In thirteen vivid stories, award-winning author Earl Lovelace paints a compassionate, often humorous portrait of everyday life in Trinidad. Ordinary people like Victor the barber, Shoemaker Arnold, Miss Ross (once the most sought-after woman in Cunaripo), and Blues and Joebell (both eager to see new lands) are invested with the magic of their colorful, changing world.

Contents:

• A Brief Conversion
• The Fire Eater's Journey
• The Coward
• The Fire Eater's Return
• Call Me 'Miss Ross' For Now
• Those Heavy Cakes
• George and the Bicycle Pump
• Fleurs
• The Midnight Robber
• Joebell and America
• Shoemaker Arnold
• Victoria and the Blight
• The Gambler's Funeral