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A review by themillennialjareads
Salt by Earl Lovelace
4.0
Reading "Salt" I feel how young the Caribbean still is. I think sometimes we forget that. Some of us are barely 50 years old, this year America turns 244 years old and look at the conundrum they are still facing. But America and any Caribbean country's trajectory aren't comparable. One country's wealth was built off slave labor while the other was left with nothing but trauma and broken backs. No 10 acres and a mule either.
"Carnival belongs to all the peoples of the island. Living as we were so close to one another, any creation or practice by any group in the island achieved its character because of the presence of the others in the midst"
Lovelace writes in such a potently Caribbean voice, it's unmistakably Trini, this energy moves through lines I revisit, soaking up and finding new meanings, thinking how relevant this text still is. I don't feel like a stranger in this novel. I'm not reading about some time in the distant past. It's narrating our recent and present state.
Salt is about everything that makes Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago
"Carnival belongs to all the peoples of the island. Living as we were so close to one another, any creation or practice by any group in the island achieved its character because of the presence of the others in the midst"
Lovelace writes in such a potently Caribbean voice, it's unmistakably Trini, this energy moves through lines I revisit, soaking up and finding new meanings, thinking how relevant this text still is. I don't feel like a stranger in this novel. I'm not reading about some time in the distant past. It's narrating our recent and present state.
Salt is about everything that makes Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago