Crick Crack, Monkey

This book is a classic, VERY REALISTIC, intoxicating, and perfectly short read that allows one another view of Jamaica (beyond the resorts)! Hodge grapples with color-ism, class-ism, sexism, and the economic plights experienced by the "haves and the have nots". She exposed the similarities experienced across the globe by people of African descent living in colonized and post-colonized environments. Should be required reading within most higher learning institutions.

The uneasiness of race and class identity played out in a young girl’s unsteady journey of forging family and place. A Caribbean Classic I was so pleased to find and gift on.

5 stars because this book really unlocks the true pain behind not knowing yourself or your true beauty. Merle Hodge did an amazing job.

Great read with enough historical perspective to provide more than just a story. Really good book for Lit. students.

This short but intense novel lends itself to a fruitful discussion of postcolonial issues such as appropriation and abrogation, assimilation and acculturation, hybridity, mimicry, and Eurocentrism. I taught it with considerable success in an upper-division class. The students found the ending disappointing, though.The cultural and linguistic complexity of Trinidadian society and the country's struggle to carve out an identity for itself are effectively captured in the confusion of the orphaned protagonist, Tee, who is torn between the warm but no-nonsense environment at her Tantie's and the 'properness' of life with Beatrice, her aunt who lives in the city.

Hilarious! As a native Trinidadian I know all the colloquial terms and having grown up in Trinidad the time this book was written I am reliving Trinidad fully. Love it!!

A good short narrative of being brought up in the Caribbean. Hodge's writing is beautiful and to the point. The multiplicity of motherhood in Cynthia's life rings true for many of us who are familiar with Caribbean culture and anyone who recognizes the all too familiar issues of self identification during one's early teens. It's a shame Crick, Crack is no longer in print, get a copy if you can!

I gave this a 4 star rating because I was able to get the book in time for school. Thanks.

I'm eternally grateful to my English teacher, Miss C, for introducing us to this wonderful book. It made more of an impression on me than any other text I read at school. (More so even than Macbeth, read in the round by us inexperienced 5th formers: " Go _get_ him, surgeons!").After years of struggling to recall the title, it came to me out of the blue a few weeks ago and I was able to order (thank you Amazon for stocking!) and relish it all over again; it did not disappoint.Wonderful characters speaking rich West Indian dialect, and a humorous anecdotal style of storytelling, combine beautifully with a darkening social narrative which explores a universal theme of painfully shifting attitudes and the divided loyalties experienced by a child who, as she matures, finds her horizons suddenly and bewilderingly expanded.Highly recommended.

I had to study this book for my English Lit O level many years ago. I did not enjoy it then, and, with my son doing his English Lit GCSE I was prompted to re-read it - or rather read it for the first time, I never did finish the first time around.Unlike other readers I did not enjoy this book. I felt it starts out well, but for such a short book it seems to me to get very bogged down with many anecdotes that don't really seem in anyway connected with one another. The story line picks up again about two-thirds of the way through the book. But even then, I found I could not relate to the characters - they all seem to be really quite self-centred and I found myself thinking more and more, oh just grow-up. For me the end of the story comes rather suddenly and is unsatisfying. As a result I found the whole story somewhat unconvincing.The net result, I struggled through this book the second time around just as I did the first time - which is quite an achievement for little more than 100 pages. Maybe I just don't enjoy this kind of human interest book so others may enjoy it a whole lot more than me.

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Crick Crack, Monkey (Caribbean Writers Series) The human, interesting and often humourous story winds its way irresistably, holding the reader with its honesty, colour and clear character portrayal. This book educates the reader, entertains the reader and takes the reader on an adventure. Sometimes intense, often irreverent, but always direct, this book evokes emotion and cheers the heart. Crick Crack, Monkey (Caribbean Writers Series)