Set in Trinidad and Tobago, Toronto, and the tourist fringe of Barbados, the thirteen short stories in My Trouble With Books are filled with memories of childhood and adolescence, as well as with snapshots of the Roger McTair’s flat, calm, stoic style of writing. These are valuable, humorous, poignant stories, moored in a Caribbean literary aesthetic while also touching on themes of diaspora and exile.

Foreword -- Visiting -- Ceremonies -- Concrete -- At Union Station -- My trouble with books -- The Hiroshima mushroom cloud mas -- Vocations -- You always said I couldn't do it, but I did -- Blood -- Night birds -- The Erthig Road Quintet & Combo play Gasparillo -- Short, back & sides -- Preysal.