each is left to fend for themselves and find a new normal — with wildly varying degrees of success. Yet the trappings of their uncanny new world prove too hard to ignore for very long. Their
The exodus of Black West Indians from the islands to what is considered a land of more promise is the premise of this sweeping tale from Phillips, who was born in St. Kitts but moved with his family when he was four months old. Phillips’s return to the island—when he was 22—inspir...
) See Navew. Naphtha (n.) The complex mixture of volatile, liquid, inflammable hydrocarbons, occurring naturally, and usually called crude petroleum, mineral oil, or rock oil. Specifically: That portion of the distillate obtained in the refinement of petroleum which is intermediate between the ...