No Pain Like This Body

Set in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the twentieth century, No Pain Like this Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken and unpredictable father, and the violence of the elements end in unbearable loss.
Through vivid, vertiginous prose, and with brilliant economy and originality, Ladoo creates a fearful world of violation and grief, in the face of which even the most despairing efforts to endure stand out as acts of courage.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: 09/24/2013
ISBN: 9781770893740
Pages: 129
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d