This collection of short stories is a lively rendition of the life experiences of people in rural as well as urban Jamaican settings. The stories centre around a wide range of themes such as love, betrayal, family relationships, male-female relationships, trust, growing up and change.These are “real” fictional characters whom we can recall from our own experiences. We respond to their foibles and efforts to overcome and succeed with laughter, empathy and sometimes sadness. All in all, these are stories about living.
The Way Home and Other Stories
$16.95
Delores Wade’s journey in writing started during a rich childhood in pastoral St Mary where she imbibed an exciting array of experiences rooted in the culture of the community, and later life in the big threatening city which demanded responses that were not easily found. Her work has been informed by life on a subsistence farm among a polyphony of subsistence farmers, and the purposive or unintended learning from primary up to master’s degree levels which gave meaning to much of the earlier understandings. Added to the range of lived experiences, she was blessed by a heritage of fiction and non-fiction books covering all topics which had tremendous impact on how she writes. This expansive education, along with her avid love for language and literature, which she taught for several years, have complemented her other experiences and strengthened her sensitivity to people and how they think and act in the spaces in which they live. But the work is not cocooned by the early years, as we see, in that adult experiences are also presented in very refreshing ways.
Her first exposure to the public was through the local print media; however, The Way Home and Other Stories is her first book.
