Trinidad in the 1960s - the dawn of independence - is the setting for this fictionalised autobiography. Uprooted as children from their home in a suburb of the capital city, the narrator and his brother are taken to a remote rural area to live with their grandmother. Through a series of adventures, they begin to grow accustomed to country life. But the longing to return to their extended family in the city never quite fades away... As much of nostalgia as it is of wonder, this portrait of Trinidad, resurrecting the old time days and ways, enthrals with the gallery of colourful characters the reader meets, episode after episode. At its core is painted a moving tribute to grandmothers the world over.