i didn't finish this book before i had to take it back to the library(bad planning). it seems to me i wasn't crazy about it. when i got it back, i didn't reread it, i just took up where i had left off. and i really liked it. growing up in jamaica, in a large, loving family, not much about herself or her sibs. a good story about a time that's gone as all our times are. ( )

I picked up this book because I lived in Jamaica as a teen & haven't read many Caribbean writings since then. I wish I'd had this book when I lived there, for the sense of history & place it gave me. The Harvey family drew me in from the first chapter of this poignant, elegiac family history.