The Stall Keeper | Anderson Reynolds
Set in the small Caribbean town of Vieux Fort, St. Lucia, and using American World War II occupation of the town as backdrop, The Stall Keeper is a novel of frustrated love, provincialism, superstition, religious bigotry, frustrated love, and coming of age. It portrays a damaged culture and explores the pathos and sociopsychological makeup of a people. In the Stall Keeper the inhabitants of Vieux Fort were said to be waiting for the Americans¿ return to bring back the good times. Five-year-old Henry whose father died when he was eighteen months old was still walking up to men asking, ¿Mister, are you my father?¿ His mother, Eunice, a strict Seventh Day Adventist with the gift of foretelling the future, would not be unequally yoked. Eugene, a stall keeper and the town¿s most colorful and free-spirited character, was a woman living in a man¿s body, and a man living in a woman¿s world. Ruben, a favorite son, an intellectual, a famous cricketer and a staunch Roman Catholic, falls madly in love with Eunice. What happens in Vieux Fort when Henry teams up with Eugene and Ruben warms his way into the heart of Eunice is a tale of magic and tragedy.
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