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This one is available on internet archives which a friend in the U.K. found and was able to send to me via Kindle app. Lovelace was a celebrated author of Trinidad and this was one of his first books. Set in Calvary Hill, a poor neighborhood in Port of Spain, it is a poignant look into the lives of several people connected to a yard, including Aldrick, who always plays a dragon at Carnival, and his friend Philo who finds success as a Calypso singer. The people in the neighborhood fine empowermen
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