Hungry Ghosts
By Kevin Jared Hosein
326 pages
What’s it about?
This story takes place in Trinidad in the 1940’s. Two families are intertwined and connected by a mystery.What did it make me think about?
Colonialism and all that it left behind.Should I read it?
I am in awe of this book- but it is a hard book to read. It makes you appreciate how easy many of our lives are in comparison. These people live hard lives and are harder because of it. The writing is beautiful but there is not a lot of hope in this novel.Quote-
“Hans looked at his son, pummeled and bruised, brimming with silent anger. In his son, saw the soul of his father. Not a protector, but a pugilist. He knew his father to be fighting man who had been knocked down more times than he could count- and because of that, he made his family into his opponent. Because that was at least a fight he could win.”What’s it about?
This story takes place in Trinidad in the 1940’s. Two families are intertwined and connected by a mystery.
What did it make me think about?
Colonialism and all that it left behind.
Should I read it?
I am in awe of this book- but it is a hard book to read. It makes you appreciate how easy many of our lives are in comparison. These people live hard lives and are harder because of it. The writing is beautiful but there is not a lot of hope in this novel.
Quote-
“Hans looked at his son, pummeled and bruised, brimming with silent anger. In his son, saw the soul of his father. Not a protector, but a pugilist. He knew his father to be fighting man who had been knocked down more times than he could count- and because of that, he made his family into his opponent. Because that was at least a fight he could win.”
