![]() ![]() ![]() At first she pedals her way around the island, earning a reputation for herself as the beautiful white woman brave (crazy?) enough to bike around Port-of-Spain. Having only intended to stay in Trinidad for her husband’s initial three-year contract, Sabine never fully accepts her long-term status as a privileged resident of the lush, too-warm island. Herself a native of Trinidad and the daughter of two such expats, author Monique Roffey’s interaction with the world of her novel is deeply familiar and cognizant of the intricacies of Trinidadian society, at least as far as these nuances are available to a white woman. Encompassing fifty years, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle introduces readers to the birth and early development of independence in Trinidad through the life story of an expatriate couple who arrived as colonialism left. ![]()
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