Second Eulogy Mind the Gap

Mind The Gap is an autobiographical deconstruction and repositioning of personal memories of the father It gives a voice by decontextualizing and deconstructing the mythologies and legacies of the presentabsent one 2nd Eulogy Mind The Gap spurns personal tales of loss longings memories and the phantasmagoria by interweaving fiction and nonfiction to conjure an abstract story of interconnected lives The central tale narrates the lives of Nelson a fisherman and father his gay son James who is coming of age in a verdantly charged landscape Antoinette Nelsons wife who embodies the islands colonial past and Mother Country and their maid Josephine Apart from telling the personal story around the father it explores personal experiences of growing up as a gay teenager in Grenada the ridicule the sexual molestation the trauma Billy Gerard Frank