Two Days in Mayaro

“The funniest serious book I’ve read in years. Pamela Mordecai treats the no-joke experience of living between worlds in the most insightfully hilarious ways. The alchemies she weaves between outrage and laughter, faith and give up, ‘yard’ and ‘foreign’ (not to mention man and duppy) produce an alternative universe of a different kind. Two Days in Mayaro is Mordecai at her compelling best.” -- Curdella Forbes, author of A Tall History of Sugar
“Who but Pamela Mordecai, with her inimitable loving irreverence, would speak of the ‘Divinity with an affinity for stones, like how he send out a likl pikni with a slingshot and a pebble to lick down a giant’? Mordecai’s stories flesh out the literary landscape of ‘this too’ is Canada. She reminds us in Two Days in Mayaro of the richness of the many englishes cast, like those pebbles around the globe, while she licks down our tired language borders.” -- Shani Mootoo, author of Starry Starry Night
“Critically acclaimed poet and author Pamela Mordecai’s new collection of short stories, Two Days In Mayaro, offers ample evidence that she is indeed a truly consummate story teller. These glimpses into the fictional lives of the Jamaican diaspora in Canada explore familiar aspects of the human condition. There is an enticing vein of humour running through these tales of ageing, anxiety, deceit, guilt, infidelity, prejudice, and superstition. It’s a refreshing, riveting read.” -- Linton Kwesi Johnson, author of Time Come