Island Wings : A Memoir by Cecil Foster
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Overview: As a baby, Cecil Foster was left sobbing in the arms of his aunt as his mother departed Barbados to follow his father to a new and supposedly better life in England. What was supposed to be a short separation for Cecil and his two brothers ¬ their parents promised to send for the boys once they were settled, turned into a 23-year absence that profoundly affected Cecil’s outlook, and his life.
Island Wings is Cecil Foster’s deeply affecting story of growing up in a country that was, at the same time, also struggling to find its own independence and place in the world. It is a story guided by the universal truths of heart, mind, and money: where a young boy is raised by an impoverished and physically abusive grandmother, a woman stretched to the limit by trying to raise her own children and grandchildren; where parents routinely leave their children behind for the dream of a better life off the island; where an education provides the slender thread of hope for a job in the civil service or hospital. Despite its setting of poverty and struggle, Island Wings is a story bursting with life and the rhythms of the island, of a young boy’s memories of nights spent under a star-filled sky, of cricket games and of a teacher who dared children to dream and think.
Cecil Foster’s story is also the story of Barbados, politically and economically volatile as it reached for independence from British rule. As a young news reporter, Cecil Foster witnessed the awakening political climate within the Caribbean nations, and his eventual departure from Barbados is inexorably intertwined with the island’s turmoil.
Genre: Non Fiction, Biography
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