Welcome to Ink & Obeah, the secret reading society where Caribbean books speak, and the old magic answers back. Hosted by Trinidad-born storyteller and artist Addae G, each gathering takes us deeper into Caribbean literature, one chapter at a time. With candlelight, rain on a tin roof, and the rhythm of island storytelling, we explore not just the words, but the spirits, folklore, and ancestral memory alive inside them.

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Chapter Two Description

In this second gathering, we step deeper into Harold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like This Body. The rain hasn’t stopped falling, and the family is still struggling in the mud and the storm. In this chapter, the tension between Pa and Ma sharpens, the children’s nakedness in the rain becomes a symbol of both innocence and exposure, and the August weather feels less like nature and more like a punishment. We’ll sit with the silences, the cruelty, and the ways Ladoo’s language makes the land itself into a character.

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