I liked this one a lot. It was a neat mix of magical realism and sort of gritty reality set in a fictional city in Trinidad and Tobago. I like reading things that expose me to cultures new to me or expose me a little more to cultures I knew just a little about, and here I learned more about Rastafari, including the proscription on proximity to death. The prose is lyrical and lovely, and the central idea about life and death and its keepers is satisfying.