New York: Washington Square Press Books, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first work of fiction - a novella and eight short stories - by this historian and journalist who has spent many years in the Caribbean. These stories are comedies of cultural misunderstandings, set in the Caribbean, Paris, and New York, in which the characters, because of their diversity, misjudge one another. Glossary. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-67103605X.