“Two patties please.” I tell myself I’ll avoid grabbing any this time, but it is a tradition now. I get my haircut at the spot three stores down, then stop in here before getting the bus home. “2.50,” the clerk says. His face says he is in his fifties, but the hunched back makes him seem older. His movements are …
Chapter 10: Rolling Calf
Akeelah is awaken by a herd of albino cows as they march towards Bridgetown beach. Akeelah tracks them down, and tries to set them free.
Where is Jamaica?
There are more Jamaicans living outside Jamaica than in Jamaica. Jamaica itself can be seen as an export. The diaspora, the people who have left it, is concentrated in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Where is Jamaica? It is in Toronto, London, England? I was born in Jamaica and grew up in Canada, while also living in …
