A Fool's Paradise. (fiction reviews).A Fool's Paradise By Nancy Flowers Wilson Flowers in Bloom Publishing, Marcli 2001, $14.00, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-970-81910-2 Images of sea-salt air and a sky with many moods takes us to Jamaica in Nancy Flowers Wilson's debut novel, A Fool's Paradise. It opens with Anne-Marie Saunders, a premed pre·med adj. Premedical. premed Premedical adjective Referring to preparing for a career in medicine noun student at the University of the West Indies The university consists of three major campuses at Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, and Cave Hill in Barbados, together with a satellite campus in Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago and a Centre for Hotel and Tourism Management in Nassau, Bahamas. , struggling to balance the desires of her heart. "I have three passions: My boyfriend, Donovan ... the second is school ... the last is my desire to travel to America. As it turned out, one of my passions would be my downfall. The other would do me the most harm, and the third would be my salvation." Anne-Marie has spent her entire life in Jamaica and is eager to depart from her native land by way of education. It will not be easy to leave her family, especially her beloved father, Trevor, who named her "Star" the day she was born. However, her greatest hold to the island may be her boyfriend, Donovan Miller, a "beautifully bronzed man with his Chinese mother's eyes." The two have known each other since childhood and, though it's been assumed they would marry, it seems inevitable once Anne-Marie becomes pregnant. But it's not just the pregnancy that may put a glitch A temporary or random hardware malfunction. It is possible that a bug in a program may cause the hardware to appear as if it had a glitch in it and vice versa. At times it can be extremely difficult to determine whether a problem lies within the hardware or the software. See glitch attack. into Anne-Marie's plans. At the same time, Anne-Marie's best friend, Colleen, is experiencing her own angst as she struggles to find herself in Montego Bay away from her friends and family. A Fool's Paradise is an engrossing engrossing, in English law, practice of acquiring a monopoly of goods in order to sell them at an inflated price. The offense was ordinarily limited to monopolies of foods. Related practices were forestalling, i.e. tale that will keep you turning the pages. Though it is littered with cliches, and many parts of the story are told through the narration, which does not allow the reader to learn about the characters through their voices, this is still an enjoyable read by a promising new author. Victoria Christopher Murray is BIBR BIBR Bay Islands Beach Resort (Roatan, Honduras) BIBR Backward Indicator Bit Received associate editor and the author of Temptation (Warner Books/Walk Worthy Press) and Joy (see page 58). |
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