New York: Grove Press, (2005). First edition - The third novel by this award winning writer from the Caribbean (born in the US to Trinidadian parents, he grew up in the Bahamas), one which "lays bare themes of race and sexuality in a parodic recasting of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises transported to the West Indies." Three childhood friends from Trinidad meet up by chance in New York City and, fueled by alcohol, decide to return "home" for Carnival. Short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Caribbean and Canadian region. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-802170056.