The Liming House

It wasn’t until I left Trinidad for much colder climes I discovered I was black. All my life I had been a so-called “red girl” – a racial hybrid with Indian, Caucasian, African and Chinese anscestors. Mixed, middle-class, prestigiously schooled and commensurately sheltered, I railed against the hyphenated identities adopted by Indo- or Afro- Trinbagonian [...]