When Dogs Eat Mangoes: Volume 1
About this ebook
This is a coming of age story about a boy growing up in Jamaica with his grandmother and extended family members. The child observes, and reports of what he witnesses, taking the reader through a day, a week, and a brief life in a rural Jamaican community where some Jews live outwardly as Christians.
About the author
Ariel Isa BeitShemesh was born in rural Jamaica in 1978 and, at age thirteen in 1991, he immigrated to Canada where he lived with his mother, stepfather and two siblings.
Ariel, says of the move and adjustment to first world Canada that "...the awe of the new environment left me wanting home, home by which I mean the plump, welcoming bosom of my Mama, chicken-back and dumpling, callaloo...it took me a long time to like Canada, I loved it immediately, but to like it, that took some time..."
Ariel studied at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario and at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. A writer of fictional short stories, semi-autobiographies like his work When Dogs Eat Mangoes, he also publishes poems, essays and songs; he is also a good, no - great gardener.
Ariel and his wife Zera, live in Ontario, Canada and are expecting their first child.
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