Hendree's Cure

by Moses Nagamootoo

Madrassis in Guyana used to pour a drop of white rum in memory of their ancestors. Moses Nagamootoo's libation is, like the best high wine, an intoxicating mix of fire, sweetness and pungency. Blending fiction and documentary, he reanimates a world now mostly gone, that of the Madrassi fishermen, market-traders, rice farmers, Kali worshippers, cricketers, turfites and see-far practitioners who inhabited the Corentyne village of Whim in the 1950s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1900715457
• ISBN13: 9781900715454
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.2"