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My grandfather came from the Island of Barbados with his mother, brothers, and sisters to Tobago in about 1890. They established themselves in their new home, but no one alive today seems to be able to make any connection with our Barbados relatives, which for a very long time had been my desire. My father had told me some stories that I wanted to share with some of my relatives and began to do so as attachments to e-mails. Those relatives enjoyed them and kept asking me for more. I included some stories of my own that I recalled from growing up in Tobago. This book is a compilation of fifty stories about my family that I want to share with you. I hope that you, too, would enjoy them. Some of the conversations in some of the stories were written in dialect to retain a Caribbean flavor. Caribbean readers should have no problem following what was said, but for those who are unfamiliar with the way the ordinary island person speaks, I have included a key at the end of the book to help you understand what was being said.
This book is a literary fiction whose setting began on the Caribbean island of Tobago, but was expanded to Europe and other parts of the world, to mimic the movements of the Caribbean peoples during the Colonial era and after the islands had gained their independence. The book contains elements of some real events, which might have been exaggerated, and were stitched together like the various pieces of fabrics in a quilted sheet in order to link together the discourse of the book. Where a portion of the book is similar to a real episode, the names of the characters have been changed, and the spellings of some of the characters and places in some conversations were intentionally misspelled in...
He has now authored two books, both of them self-published and available at Xlibris. The first is entitled An Anthology of Stories about My Family, in which he relates some stories about his Caribbean history and his early days in America. He was motivated to write the current volume, Follow the Manual, as he witnessed society’s deviation from what is written in God’s manual, the Holy Bible,,and he wanted to help to bring about a change. Although he might not get some people to change their opinions concerning some of the issues that he discussed in this book and about which they already seemed to have settled in their minds, this book would at least provoke a reopening of debates on these topics, and he believes the latter result would have accomplished a great portion of his intention. May God bless you and open your hearts as you read this book.
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