Summary

Tanty is disgruntled when Tolroy starts dating a white girl and openly chides him. He and his family live off the Harrow Road in a working-class community. Within the European capitol, low-income neighborhoods abut elite areas but the residents “come to kind of accept that is so the world is, that it bound to have rich and poor, it bound to have some who live by the Grace and others who have plenty” (61). In the Harrow Road neighborhood, the shops began to change following the increased immigration of Jamaican residents. Previously, “it was a hell of a thing to pick up a piece of saltfish anywhere, or to get thing like pepper sauce or dasheen or even garlic” but the shops began catering to the Caribbean newcomers (63). Tanty frequents the stores in the neighborhood and enjoys “the chance to meet them other...