A chance discovery of a trunkful of books in a most unlikely place transforms the life of a young child in deep rural Jamaica in the 1940s equipping him with a moral compass that allows him to survive child abuse, injustice and corruption. it is a time when the British colony is in a struggle for self government and national identity. In a brutally frank yet humorously self deprecating style, the writer, in this coming of age narrative, examines issues...