Where there are monsters

Mc Ivor, Breanne2019

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In this powerfully engaging collection of short stories, Breanne Mc Ivor lifts the tropes and characters of Caribbean folklore and places them among the concrete, glass and heat of a hectic, recognizable, crime-ridden Trinidad. These are not simply modern or modernised folktales, but beautifully crafted, fully formed contemporary stories by a hugely talented writer who uses them as narrative vehicles to address weighty questions about human nature and Trinidadian society. What choice is there for a young man, besotted with an upperclass woman, when what stands between him and her, is the humiliating poverty he's trapped in?