Sic Transit Wagon: And Other Stories

by Barbara Jenkins

The stories in this collection move from the all-seeing na vet of a child narrator trying to make sense of the world of adults, through the consciousness of the child-become-mother, to the mature perceptions of the older woman taking stock of her life. Set over a timespan from colonial-era Trinidad to the hazards and alarms of its postcolonial present, these stories have, at their core, the experience of uncomfortable change, but seen with a developing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845232143
• ISBN13: 9781845232146
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"