In the community of Celadon the residents - family, friends and neighbors - helped each other, shared food, melee, and responsibilities. On weekdays they made work or found work, baking bread and pastries, taking in washing, picking cotton, cutting sugar-cane, work as fishermen, tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, masons, shopkeepers; and raised their children. On weekends, they drank a little, quarreled some, cooked big meals, and attended church. Oxy lived in Celadon, which was located on a Caribbean island, where his life was stalled by the island's rapidly changing landscape, and the...