Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje Literature and Basil Van der Smaght

and Basil Van der Smaght filches a human heart and feeds it to the Nawalapitiya railway staff

the book closes with two contemporary accounts of how chocolate manufacturers have (or have not) been dealing with the ethical side of the industry

a wonderfully maleficent anti-heroine

as each decade passes

I see you with a hand-me-down cracked bat

Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje Literature and Basil Van der SmaghtTwenty years after leaving his native Sri Lanka for the winters of Canada, a dream of tropical heat and barking dog lures Michael Ondaatje to return home and revisit a childhood and a family he never fully understood. Ondaatje gathers anecdotes, poems and memories to piece together this portrait of the colorful stories and secret of his ancestors. BAREFOOT BOOKSHOP BEST SELLER