January 27, 2010
Nunez, Elizabeth. Anna-in-Between and Chin, Staceyann. The Other Side of Paradise. I can't stop thinking about Anna-in-Between. It's one of those amazing stories that creeps into your consciousness and takes up residence. Takes place in Trinidad, about a middle-class family. Seems kinda of slow and written in an almost pedestrian style, and yet Nunez's storytelling gripped me. I was compelled to keep reading for some quiet reason. I liked the narrator. I liked learning about Trinidad. And there was something honest and moving about the story. Followed it up by reading Staceyann Chin's utterly different story, The Other Side of Paradise, but set in nearby Jamaica. Also amazing.
