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About the Book (Goodreads description)

In this powerful first novel, H. Nigel Thomas writes about the confusing maze of societal pressures that paralyze Jerome Quashee while growing up in the Caribbean. A spiritual guide finally helps him come to terms with his homosexuality. Jerome also wrestles with the guilt of knowing so little about his African heritage and the simultaneous pressure to let go his ties to Black culture—to speak, think, and act white. Brilliantly written, Spirits in the Dark has been published outside Canada as part of Heinemann's prestigious Caribbean Writers series.


About the Author

H. Nigel Thomas was born in St Vincent. He attended university in Montreal and for ten years was a teacher with the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. He is now professor of literature at Laval University. His published works include the novel Spirits in the Dark, which was short-listed for the 1994 Quebec Writers’ Federation Hugh MacLennan Fiction Award; How Loud Can the Village Cock Crow, short fiction; and Moving through Darkness, poetry.