A High Wind in Jamaica
Publisher: Vintage
Published: July 4, 2002
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780099437437
First sentence: ONE OF THE fruits of Emancipation in the West Indian islands is the number of the ruins, either attached to the houses that remain or within a stone's throw of them: ruined slaves' quarters, ruined sugar-grinding houses, ruined boiling houses; often ruined mansions that were too expensive to maintain.