![]() ![]() ![]() But like so many of his era he married and raised kids. The narrator (who shifts between first person and omniscient) is Barrington Walker, who found the love of his life in Antigua in the '50s. ![]() Review 2: If there's another novel about a an elderly gay Aniguan couple living in London I haven't heard of it, i.e. more ad about queer Caribbean folks in an overall realistic and sympathetic way was fantastic. ![]() However, I think the characters of Barry's daughters and his wife were much better done and the opportunity to re. Despite Evaristo attempting to paint him as a redeemed character in the end, the warm glow in my heart just wasn't there. Barry's a queer man forced into a loveless marriage as well as the closet, but he's also willfully ignorant of how this arrangement affects his wife. Maybe because this one was (slightly) less obnoxious about trying so hard to make a fairly obvious point about oppression and bigotry? It's unfortunate that the character of Barry is as self-absorbed, selfish and all-around rotten as he is, and really detracts from the story as a whole. Review 1: I enjoyed this one MUCH better than the book I previously (attempted to) read by Evaristo, Blonde Roots. ![]()
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