Light Action In The Caribbean (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Once, standing on the porch of the hotel, I watched her move through a field of high grass below an abandoned pear orchard a half mile distant. It was a bright day in November and the grass was turning saffron and magenta in the sweep of the wind. She moved in such a tentative way down the hillside I thought her sightless. But I knew her to be the deaf girl from this place, and so imagined it was only how she examined the world that made her appear blind. She was twelve, the lone child of parents who projected austerity on the street, one of perhaps eight or nine children around the town. Occasionally I saw her playing with another girl, older by a few years, but most often when I saw her she was walking alone. Her parents called out after her, “Delamina,” but the name came to her in some other way, a vibration passing through her body, and she would turn. Closer in, she read the muscles moving in a speaker’s face. I didn’t arrive in the town by accident, exactly, but initially it was not my intention even to stop.
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