A Small Gathering of Bones (Caribbean Writers Series)

By Patricia Powell

Book Overview

Patricia Powell, who was born and raised in Jamaica and emigrated to the United States in the early 1980s, portrays the love felt by two homosexuals for one another. But there are also feelings of despair and threat, set against the Caribbean background of sunshine and oppressive heat.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435989367
• ISBN13: 9780435989361
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Small Gathering offers most genuine view of Jamaica Gay life

"A Small Gathering of Bones" offers one of the most genuine renderings of Gay life in the Caribbean in print. It shows with refreshing accuracy the spaces Gay men have created within Jamaican society as well as their challenges. Powell's writing creates surprising and intimate textures of male life. "Small Gathering" gives the lie to many stereotypes of Gay life in Jamaica and the Caribbean.