Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories - Opal Palmer Adisa

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Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories, Opal Palmer Adisa, 1986, Jamaica (United States), SHORT STORIES

"...Bake-Face and Mr. Johnson have had an affair for five years, an affair in which she "discovered that laughter found her and she could cry....She cried without fearing that the ground would open up and take her in."...In "Widow's Walk," June-Plum is tempted again and again to give herself to Yemoja, mistress of the sea..."

(H.S., p. 249)