Ten Days in Jamaica
By Ifeona Fulani
Published by
Peepal Tree Press
ISBN 9781v845231996
Category short stories
Spring 2013
Synopsis
In these stories Chips uses her Jamaican holiday for beach-boy sex; Yvonne, recovering from cancer, starts a life-changing affair with her handyman; Arjun’s accuses Jewel of using him to pursue her dream of an exotic India; and responsibility and freedom are weighed in Bea’s relationship with her sexually-curious daughter.
Author's Biography
Ifeona Fulani is author of Seasons of Dust and Archipelagos of Sound: Transnational Caribbeanities, Women and Music (forthcoming). She has been published in Beacon’s Best, Small Axe, and Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noir.
Ifeona Fulani teaches in the Writing and Global Cultures concentrations in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University.
Reviews
“… elegant, witty, sad and brave … She has given a personal voice to women and men from the post-colonial world from whom we hear too little.†Margaret Drabble
“Poignant and beautiful stories … Ifeona Fulani is a gifted writer whose work is as lyrical as fables and as true as the world around us.†Edwidge Danticat
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