Pell-Mell

About the Book

Pell-Mell … So We Live! shares a collection of brief, often poignant anecdotes that provide a whimsical glimpse into how people live in the Caribbean, West Indies, and the Virgin Islands. In Pell-Mell, justice and nature fuse into one, parenting is skittish, a fugitive blue mongoose is caught red-handed, and the stork learns that delivering babies is safer. Afro-Caribbean Virgin Islander Gilbert Sprauve continues where he left off in his previous collection, Soundings over Cultural Shoals. Sprauve holds the magnifying glass that peers into a fascinating local culture and offers reflections about a world in and about the Virgin Islands, where a crane dozes in pain, a handy popgun saves a groom-son, and serial eulogies crack frail ribs. Pell-Mell … So We Live! offers a memorable look into the variations of life—from the heart, mind, and soul of a beautiful people—the Virgin Islanders.

About the Author

Gilbert Sprauve is an Afro-Caribbean Virgin Islander who has been a student, a teacher of foreign languages, and a traveler for most of his seventy-odd years of life. He is the author of Soundings over Cultural Shoals and currently lives in the Virgin Islands where he enjoys fishing, tennis, and spending time with his grandchildren.