In this age of saturation, you have to stand out with your stories. And if you are going to stand out, not only does your work have to be top-notch, but you are probably going to have to get
creative
. This is what
Michael David
Decosta
believes and tries to achieve with his memoir.
He conveys the story of his
life growing up
in
Guyana
so that you taste, feel, and smell his world. His
childhood
, his adolescence and finally,
adulthood
. This book is a
book
about
love and loss
, and carries the
emotional experience
and interiority of a being's
life
.
Memories
are not fixed. They go on changing and playing a game of hide and seek with your mind. At various instances, across various moods, you will remember a different colour of a memory. Michael has sat with his memories for long, drank coffee with them and showered with them. Only when he has felt that he knows the perfect way to etch those
memories
down has he done so. He has thought about what happened to him, and can confidently say that the experiences he has written down have made him live again.
Some of his memories are over
fifty years old now, and yet are preserved crystal clear. And it is his hope that his readers are fulfilled with the narratives he presents in this book