The article introduces Miss Pauline Evadne Sinclair, a nearly 100-year-old Jamaican woman living in a rural village. Despite her age, she embodies strength and independence as a former ganja farmer and matriarch. With worries about her health and signs of deterioration in her home, she remains haunted by her past, believing that the stones of her house are aware of her history. The narrative highlights her fierce spirit and connection to her roots, revealing a complex portrait of a woman defying expectations as she faces her mortality.
Before I introduce you to our narrator, a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday, you'd better take a moment to prepare yourself.
Our heroine mother, grandmother; friend, lover, widow; a successful ganja farmer; a survivor, who sleeps with a cutlass under her pillow is a force to be reckoned with.
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