How do I begin to explain my experience with this anthology? Nalo really stuck her whole entire foot into this endeavour because the stories and excerpts included were just spectacular. I wanted to devour every story immediately but knew I needed to spend time with each of them, to absorb the inherent specialness. 

Because each of them in their own way spoke deeply to me as a Jamaican, to the talent of Caribbean people, and also to the absolute uniqueness of our existence within our regional space.

The anthology was divided into sections that called upon memory, tradition, sayings, proverbs, lore, visions, and the crafted stories effortlessly brought the vision for the anthology to life. 

Captured within every story is history and culture and meaning. Each author picking up the call, answering the summons, and spinning webs of time and place that are rooted within our people, our folklore, and the islands. 

The lyrical spill of words, the sharply honed dialect, and the 'I know them' characters that existed on the pages breathed an immersive experience into this anthology and I find myself still within these pages; walking with June-Plum as she anxiously awaits the return of her fisherman husband, listening to Sookoo tell of the La Diablesse, and standing with the villagers of Whitesands Bay wondering what became of that most extraordinary fish.