{"id":55927,"date":"2018-03-18T00:23:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T00:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55927"},"modified":"2018-03-18T00:52:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T00:52:56","slug":"secrets-we-kept-three-women-of-trinidad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55927","title":{"rendered":"Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

W. W. Norton & Company<\/a>
\nFebruary 2018
\n352 pages
\n5.9 \u00d7 8.6 in
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-393-60926-4<\/p>\n

Krystal A. Sital<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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An eloquent new Caribbean literary voice reveals the hidden trauma and fierce resilience of one Trinidadian family.<\/em><\/p>\n

There, in a lush landscape of fire-petaled immortelle trees<\/a> and vast plantations of coffee and cocoa<\/a>, where the three hills along the southern coast act as guardians against hurricanes, Krystal A. Sital grew up idolizing her grandfather, a wealthy Hindu landowner. Years later, to escape crime and economic stagnation on the island, the family resettled in New Jersey<\/a>, where Krystal\u2019s mother works as a nanny, and the warmth of Trinidad<\/a> seems a pretty yet distant memory. But when her grandfather lapses into a coma after a fall at home, the women he has terrorized for decades begin to speak, and a brutal past comes to light.<\/p>\n

In the lyrical patois<\/a> of her mother and grandmother, Krystal learns the long-held secrets of their family\u2019s past, and what it took for her foremothers to survive and find strength in themselves. The relief of sharing their stories draws the three women closer, the music of their voices and care for one another easing the pain of memory.<\/p>\n

Violence, a rigid ethnic and racial caste system<\/a>, and a tolerance of domestic abuse\u2014the harsh legacies of plantation slavery\u2014permeate the history of Trinidad. On the island\u2019s plantations, in its growing cities, and in the family\u2019s new home in America<\/a>, Secrets We Kept<\/em> tells a story of ambition and cruelty, endurance and love, and most of all, the bonds among women and between generations that help them find peace with the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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