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Black Rock

Black Rock

Author(s): Amanda Smyth

Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1950s

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Celia’s mother died bringing her into the world – when one soul flies in, another flies out, her aunt Tassi says. So she lives in Black Rock, Tobago, with her cousins and Tassi’s second husband Roman, a man so sly he could crawl under a snake’s belly on stilts. Celia thinks he’s the devil, so when he does something that proves her right, she runs away to Trinidad and a new life in service.

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