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Sugarcane in India, to start with. The Dutch started on it in their Southeast Asian colonies. Competitor Britain converted its Caribbean possessions into sugar plantations. Whole peasant populations were optimised for this one prized crop that contributed to British world dominance
I literally had to plough my way through the pages carrying a deadweight of hopes, because Sophie Pattison, the 37-year-old heroine, though she was kind, lovely and positive, was also hopelessly boring. Throughout the book Sophie is content to be a wallflower, taken advantage of by people. Sophie loves reading; she works at a local book festival and has seen all author tantrums
Three sentences in particular mark the various stages of Li’s radical acceptance. “There’s no good way to say this” is the first one. That’s what the police said when they came to her home to tell her James was dead and it becomes a leitmotif as Li tries to define what she feels. The word ‘grief’ cannot accurately describe her condition. What precisely does she feel?
As is often the case with this author, there are plots within plots, multiple narrators, and equally numerous narrative conceits to this novel. A group of eight queer men of various ages gather in the late eighties in Kingston, Jamaica, to perform an adaptation of John Herbert’s 1967 play Fortune and Men’s Eyes, set inside a prison
