Clara is a powerful black woman brought from Jamaica to Long Island to run the household after David's mother has a breakdown following the death of her baby daughter. Clara is rough but loving, and she introduces David to a world richly textured with legend and magic. He learns her patois, and becomes an honorary member of her social circle, mainly consisting of the ladies of Blanche's Beauty Parlour in Brooklyn. As his mother grows odder and his father more distant, so David clings the more to Clara - with the inevitable unhappy consequences.

Picked up at tonight's meetup - thanks Charmelie, and nice to meet you - hope we'll see you again at the next one!

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Wow, this book has sat on Mt. TBR for a long time, hasn't it! Sorry about that. Oh well, at least I got round to reading it eventually...

An odd book that I'm not really sure whether I enjoyed or not. Well written, but it suffered from a weird lack of focus - almost as if the author couldn't decide what kind of story he wanted to write, or even whose story he was writing. I couldn't really work up a lot of sympathy for any of the characters, either.

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Given to another bookcrosser at tonight's meetup.

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It might be a little while before I read this book,picked up at meeting.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Given to a fellow bookcrosser as I don't have time to release it myself before I leave the country.

The Christchurch bookcrossers meet up on a regular basis,the information is on BCNZ Yahoo NZ The main organizers are FutureCat and myself and we welcome new members to our very friendly group.

From a box of books from lytteltonwitch.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Left on a seat.