Grenada

Angel
by Merle Collins

Born in Aruba, Merle Collins had to wait 24 years before she felt sufficiently distanced from the events of her story to be able to write about them. By then, she had come to realise that she must use the language of her homeland – a language she'd spoken all her life but did not know how to write – to convey the emotion and confusion of growing up in the midst of political discontent, and the story of her active involvement in the revolution.

Peepal Tree, 1987
ISBN 9781845231859