A Small Place

Someone on Twitter asked for suggestions of "angry" books just when I was in the middle of reading this one, one of the angriest books I've ever read. It comes in such a deceptive package, with its modest title and its muted design, but hoo boy. Written to just the sort of visitor to her tiny home island of Antigua who might pick up such a book for a bit of local color for the plane trip, it is unsparing about tourism but also about the corruption of the island's business and government, all told with the clarity and style of a New Yorker writer and the I'll-tell-it-to-your-face mockery she was raised to wield. It's bracing and enlightening.