Title: A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean
Authors: Melinda Blanchard and Robert Blanchard
Year: 2000
Publisher: Random House
Pages: 295
Country: Anguilla (British overseas territory)
This is beach reading about starting a restaurant in Anguilla, with the travails and triumphs one might imagine are associated with such a venture. It's not deep or emotional, but matter of fact.
It also provides a shocking contrast to looking around if one reads it in an impoverished Caribbean community, as I did. I wish the Blanchards all success, but it was a very weird thing to read about going to another island for kitchen supplies while watching children wearing nothing but ripped underwear eating beans with their fingers on a dirt street. I'd have been more comfortable with a memoir that more explicitly recognized the poverty around it. There was a start at this, but it remained superficial.
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