Description
In these ten searing stories, life in the American tropics is rendered with unflinching immediacy—where labor in quarries and the building of the Panama Canal, and the daily work of women tending gardens and raising children, unfold under the pressure of exploitation and indifference. Walrond traces the ways power moves through bodies and communities, illuminating the brutalities of race and the quiet, corrosive costs of “civilization” when it is built on inequality. Across isolated back-porch scenes and harsh work sites, characters confront fear, hunger, and moral compromise, revealing how cruelty can be both systemic and intimate. Written in Walrond’s vivid, lyrical style, these stories form a compelling, historically grounded portrait of inhumanity—tropics not as escape, but as a stage where injustice becomes fate.
Available Editions
paperback
Open Road Media
Published Jan 1, 2022
147 pages
ISBN: 9781504068765
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Details
First Published
1926
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Tropic Death by Eric Walrond.