"What good is a community without stories? What value is a society without storytellers? I mean beyond crick crack. Beyond the loss of douens to electric lights and Anansi replaced by the World Wide Web.
The carrier of the stories is the carrier of the wisdom and a sensibility that you can’t and never will get from the Red House.
The carrier of the stories is both the revolutionary and the peacemaker. Who shows the community its beauty and its dirt and its light.
A storyteller is a shape-shifter who uses every tool, every image, every sense to draw you in, capture your imagination."
Attilah Springer reviews A Winter Tale in The Trinidad Guardian.
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