When I was a child and people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would invariably answer “A writer”. So here I am, all grown up, and my answer is still the same. Writing is a hobby, and not a profession, of mine. Part of that is because I have to make a living, and I choose to live in a country where the only kind of writing that pays is journalistic, and reporting is a far cry from the poems and plays that have taken up my adult life, or the stories and novels that occupied my adolescence. And part of it is that writing is a very jealous hobby, and all too often it demands far more time that I can honestly give it. But I write a weekly column for the Nassau Guardian, so maybe it’s more than a hobby after all.
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Print: $12.50 Download: $1.25 "In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge." -- Jer. 31:29.
The Williams family is struggling in the wake of their father Neville's death. Four years later, his widow is still struggling to pay his bills, his daughter's seeing her father's ghost, his nephew's scheming to sell the family home, and his mother-in-law is as cantankerous as ever. But it takes the return of his outside daughter Donnie to set in motion a chain of events that will change all their lives forever.
At turns funny and outrageous, The Children's Teeth is an ultimately tragic tale of love, forgiveness, and redemption.
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Print: $15.00 Download: $2.50 Op-ed columns originally published in the Nassau Guardian, Nassau, Bahamas
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This volume of Essays on Life makes the first fifty essays published by the Nassau Guardian widely available for the first time. In essays such as "On Culture", "On Race", "On Mediocrity", "On Critical Thinking" and "On Junkanoo", Bethel brings her anthropological training and experience as a teacher and cultural worker to a wide range of Bahamian and Caribbean issues.
Larry Smith of Media Enterprises and Bahama Pundit writes: "The Bahamas needs more people like Nicolette, who are willing to look at real issues and talk directly to as many as will read and hear."
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