In the discovery of a fossilized tree stump deep off the coast of Bermuda, Angela Barry finds a potent metaphor of longterm climate change against which to measure the alarms, resentments and hopes of future possibilities expressed by her characters as they respond to Bermudas emergence from colonial status. Modernity brings challenges to the old racial, cultural and religious hierarchies that have dominated the island. Told through a group of characters brought together in shared responsibility for Genesis, a young Black adolescent on the verge of incarceration as a juvenile offender, and by Genesis herself, Barry explores a clashing of subcultures, each with the sense that their Bermuda is the one that possesses the islands virtues. There is Nina, from the respectable Black middleclass, with her own prickly uncertainties and moral hangups Lizzie, fighting for her own space in a Portuguese family railing against changing times Tess, battling with guilt over her white privilege and her reluctance to lose its benefits and Hugh, a young Welshman who has come to the island to find himself. Above all, in the character of Genesis, Barry creates a dynamic and winning portrayal of the energies, hopes, conscience and vulnerabilities of youth. Beyond the human world with all its divisions, there are the littleknown islands of Bermuda, for whose stunning beauties and sometimes urban ugliness Barry has a vividly descriptive eye.

Binding: Paperback;272 pages; Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 406 g; Dimensions: 135 x 205 x 25

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