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Maybe I spent too many years working in a southern high school to appreciate the immature conversations and actions of young people but Rodrigues' characters never seem to develop or mature. As an older adult, I found the conversations ulta tedious and boring. I think he basically took on way too many important topics-racism, poverty, homosexuality, addiction, and speckled them with a touch of global warming and Jamaican history and folklore, all in a novel of only 250 pages. I think an older Daniel with more life experiences returning to Palm Coast to confront his demons would have made for a much stronger …more story, especially since there is very little plot. I was thinking I would rate the book a 3 for Rodrigues' beautiful and symbolic descriptions of the environment but constant derogatory name calling, drunken conversations and fist fights got in the way. The last chapter was particularly perplexing as he suddenly shifts narrators for no apparent reason. (less)