Return of the Native
Hugh Barnes, 7 March 1985
Merle, and Other Stories
by Paule Marshall.
Virago, 210 pp., £9.95, February 1985,0 86068 665 5 Show More
by Paule Marshall.
Virago, 210 pp., £9.95, February 1985,
“... travelogues are few and far between in Caryl Phillips’s The Final Passage and the novels of Paule Marshall, but families uproot themselves. Their stories correspond, but not in time or place. Phillips’s travellers leave their small Caribbean island for Britain in the 1950s, when prospects were cheery. The white folks of the West had never had it ... ”