6/29/2023 0 Comments The Rainy Season by Amy Wilentz![]() ![]() He meets an archaeologist from Tennessee who for decades has been bagging and labeling the detritus of a destroyed plantation (ruined before the eruption) a few paces down the road from Sir George’s place. His driver, a man called La Bumba (also the nickname of his beat-up car), guides him around the largely depopulated island, along with various older women whose honorific is Miss. ![]() He stays at Sir George Martin’s house (yes, the Beatles producer had a home here, which is now a genteel auberge - just one of the endless surprises of Jelly-Schapiro’s Caribbean). ![]() His portrait of Montserrat in the long aftermath of the late 1990s volcanic eruption is particularly delicate and generous. Like a water-colorist of the Victorian era, Jelly-Schapiro gives readers an atmospheric glimpse of each island on which he alights. ![]()
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