"With er I immediately sensed that it had to do with who I was, where I'd been born, and where I'd been living these last twenty-five hears. This was thef irst time she was meeting mea] 'He's a Brahmin, ' she finally said, sternly, as if I wasn't there with them." There closely observed stories, with their gritty poetic desritions and finely irionic twists, confront Dabydeen's Asian and Caribbean-South American identity with his experience of life in Canada, where he has lived for over three decades. Of Cyril Dabydeen's previous works: "It is the epiphay, the moment of illuminations, which comes out of an ordinary experience." - "World Literature Today" "Dabydeen's narrativew often containthe lyrical sonsilidations of images that are the mark of a poet . an earnestly searching soul." - "Books in Canada " .".

spirit, flavour and humour . vivid, vivacious fiction." - "The Ottawa Citizen".