Pink Icing and Other Stories
Written by Pamela Mordecai
Narrated by Pamela Mordecai
()
About this audiobook
Telling stories of ordinary lives with extraordinary skill, Pamela Mordecai draws delicately detailed portraits of life in Jamaica and other islands, with occasional trips to Canada. Her characters speak with the cadences of the Caribbean, and cope with the universal experiences of birth and death, joy and betrayal.
In “Hartstone High”, a group of girls learn the high price of education; in “Alvin's Ilk”, a self-centred teenaged boy comes to see his elderly neighbour in a whole new way; and in “Shining Waters”, a young priest’s plans for his new parish go horribly awry. Mordecai turns a sharp ear to the nuances of everyday speech, exposing the currents beneath the calm exterior and producing complex tales that will challenge and entertain her readers.
Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country’s greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.
Pamela Mordecai
Pamela Mordecai is a vital link between the literary worlds of Canada and Jamaica as a poet, editor, publisher, teacher, actor, and former TV presenter. A veteran anthologist, she co-edited the ground-breaking collections Jamaica Woman and Her True-True Name, the first collection of fiction by women from English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries. She has published five other books of poetry, including the performance poems de Man and de Book of Mary. Mordecai has also published a short story collection, Pink Icing, and a novel, Red Jacket, that was a finalist for the Rogers Prize for Fiction. Her poems have been selected for numerous anthologies, including The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse, The Heinemann Anthology of Caribbean Poetry, Eyeing the North Star, Sisters of Caliban, and Wheel and Come Again. Born and raised in Jamaica, Mordecai now lives in Kitchener, Ontario.
Related to Pink Icing and Other Stories
Related audiobooks
All That It Ever Meant Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBrass Ankle Blues Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Quicksand Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5When You Get to the Other Side Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5From Sunset to Sunset Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lazarus Effect Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIf Sons, Then Heirs: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStand Up!: Ten Mighty Women Who Made a Change Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLie To Me, Dan Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pirate's Daughter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn the Night of Memory: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI'll Give You a Reason Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Song of the Exile Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIsland Songs Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beneath the Burning Wave Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCon Cuba en el bolsillo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Nikole Hannah-Jones's The 1619 Project Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Colonel's Dream Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Island Man Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Spy Lover Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Awakening Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBook of the Little Axe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5See Now Then: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5October Suite Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5How Far We've Come Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Goddie Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Seed of Cain Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKemosha of the Caribbean Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5American Saint: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGetting Our Breath Back Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Short Stories For You
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Living Girl on Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stories of Your Life and Others Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Manual for How to Love Us: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Four Past Midnight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Two Scorched Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dunwich Horror & The Thing on the Doorstep Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Skeleton Crew: Selections Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is Salvaged: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Orgy: A Short Story About Desire Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Yellow Wallpaper: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maktub: An Inspirational Companion to The Alchemist Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5UR Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream and Other Works Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Her Body and Other Parties: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Seven H.P. Lovecraft Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Best of Edgar Allan Poe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just After Sunset: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Illustrated Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5LT's Theory of Pets Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blood And Smoke Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Pink Icing and Other Stories
0 ratings0 reviews