In this brilliantly comic novel, Barbara Jenkins hears, like Sam Selvon, the melancholy behind the kiff-kiff laughter. At its heart is a dilapidated bar in Port of Spain, and a woman determined to resurrect the place. But first Indira Gabriel must overcome her grief over her abandonment by her partner, Solomon, gone to Canada with his steelband combo without telling Indira hes not coming back. Then theres Bostic, Solomons boyhood friend, determined to preserve De Rightest Place as a mausoleum to his memory. Not least, as the reader discovers, Indira has areas of darkness in her past that threaten her drive to make a new beginning for herself and the pub
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Barbara Jenkins was born in Trinidad. She studied at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and at the University College, Cardiff. She married a fellow student, and they continued to live in Wales through the whole decade of the sixties. In the early seventies they returned to Trinidad. Since she started writing in 2008, her stories have won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize Caribbean Region in 2010 and 2011; the Wasafiri New Writing Prize; The Canute Brodhurst Prize for short fiction, The Caribbean Writer; the Small Axe short story competition, 2011; the Romance Category and My African Diaspora Short Story Contest. Her debut short story collection, Sic Transit Wagon (Peepal Tree, 2013) was awarded the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award.
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