The Ladies Are Upstairs: A Collection of Stories

by Merle Collins

From the 1930s through the dawning of a new century, these tender and moving stories underscore living life with style and hidden steel despite one's circumstances and warn against disregarding the past struggles of others. Doux Thibaut negotiates a hard life on the Caribbean island of Paz, confronting the shame of poverty and illegitimacy, the hazards of sectarianism on an island segregated into Catholics and Protestants, and the injustices of racism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845231791
• ISBN13: 9781845231798
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"