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Glassbottom Days
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Code: 21-90
Price:$24.95
Glassbottom Days is a memoir set in the Virgin Islands. The author, Willie Wilson, moved to the Virgin Islands from New York in 1958 and presently lives on St. Thomas.
Willie Wilson revisits scenes from his Virgin Islands childhood in this engaging narrative that is part coming-of-age, part investigation -- one where memories are peeled back and old assumptions reconsidered. Along the way, readers witness childhood dislocations in a tropical world, one populated by schoolyard bullies, calypso music, sexual awakening, parental infidelity, madness, grave robbers and young love. These vignettes combine with observations made decades later to offer a compelling portrait of a boy, a family and an island in transition. The book becomes, in effect its own glass bottom, traveling the shoals of the author's childhood, revealing colorful and startling sights. At times, peering into some of the darker crevices, the author discovers things even he didn't know were there. What becomes clear in the end is that the actual writing of "Glassbottom Days," is an important part of the story, and largely what leads to the book's ultimate note of reconciliation and hope, and to the understanding that truth often dwells in unexpected places.
This is a first edition, hardcover book, 259 pages.
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