pick#ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Guyana 🇬🇾
This was a fabulous second-hand find, which I certainly wouldn't have picked up if not for this challenge, so, thank you, @BarbaraBB and @Librarybelle 🙏
The story follows the Foster family and their friends and neighbours, living in a poor part of Georgetown, Guyana. Some dream of a quiet life, others of making their way in the world, and love is often betrayed and manipulated to these ends.
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"Goat shit small, but goat shit plenty." ????
Well, I guess the little annoyances of life can add up to a big pile of shit, can't they? ?
"Melda was a virgin - no doubt about that! It was not natural at her age. Christine reflected that she herself had eaten bread at fourteen."
Well, the meaning is clear, but "eating bread" isn't a euphemism for sex I'd heard before. However, turns out it's a Jewish idiom which seems to have gained more widespread usage (if you'll pardon the phrase): https://forward.com/food/400311/in-ancient-jewish-texts-bread-was-a-euphemism-fo...
#ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Guyana 🇬🇾
Ooh, this one's off to a good start! 10 pages and I'm already feeling engaged - there's hope for me yet! 😁
Bird Foster has done a total of four months' work in his life. When he hears that his brother in Canada is rich enough to buy a house, the envy and shame he feels motivates him to earn some easy money. I don't think it's going to turn out well for him 🫤
@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
A Man Come Home | 
Set just after Guyana gained independence from Britain, so late '60s to early '70s, and published in '74, it felt vibrant and real, with well-drawn characters and wonderfully natural dialogue. ⬇️ 2y