For a young widow on the island of Corpus Christi, Britain's alliance with the United States during World War II means the arrival of US servicemen in the colonies - and as boarders in her house. She quickly learns that the soldiers' appetites go beyond the dinner table to the island's more tempting and provocative fruits. Each evening at supper, as a ploy to keep her young men out of the brothels and out of the Chief of Police's greedy hands, she feeds them tales that seductively blend the Caribbean's exotic past with a decidedly spicy present.
Now in her ninety-seventh year, the widow tells these stories to her innocent young grandson as a tapestry of interlocking and exaggerated memories, all the more colourful for the re-telling. Lyrical and lewd fabulous and scatological, they are tales that tumble out and continually interrupt each other as a series of stories-within-stories-within-stories. Told in her richly uninhibited vernacular, they range from absurd, side-splitting asides to timeless traditional Caribbean folk-tales - each with the grandmother's unique twist. What she generously and playfully offers her grandson is a rite of passage, lessons in an ancient art. They are a tribute to Robert Antoni's remarkable talent.
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