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Annette Fabian Winter
Goodbye Brooklyn
Goodbye Brooklyn
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What should a white bride do when her adversary, a therapist who utilizes a mysterious lead-lined box to cure his patients, secures a carpentry job for her black hubby with a loin-clothed, foul-mouthed ex-patient of his on a remote Caribbean island? An island where Voodoo is still practiced. And what if the bride, unsafely housed in a mid-forest hovel, discovers that this employer appears to have arranged for the local coffin maker to murder his wealthy wife? Inauspiciously, this much revered coffin maker has stalked our heroine since day one of her arrival.
Sounds pretty funny, doesn't it? Much of it is. But as we know the underbelly of humor is rife with the complexities of life. The difficult parents, disgruntled in-laws, social sanctions, strangers with hidden agendas, and the everyday frictions of lovers. Goodbye Brooklyn is my semi-autobiographical story of honeymooners adrift in an unfamiliar spot. Far from their roots, they are rootless. At times illogically terrified; at other times illogically sure of their safety. Annie, like Alice in Wonderland has followed her rabbit, her Wally, into a world of surprise, unpredictability, happiness and dread.
Goodbye Brooklyn is a humorous story of a honeymoon between a skeptical middle-class white gal named Annie from Brooklyn and a credulous upper-class black guy named Wally from Manhattan. A marriage between a dreamer who wants to build a boat to sail around the world and a realist unsure of his skills. Fortunately for her hubby, along comes a therapist who secures a carpentry job with a loin-clothed, foul mouthed ex-patient of his on a remote Caribbean island. The carpenter appears to have arranged for the local coffin maker to murder his wife. This same coffin maker stalks our young heroine from day one of her arrival.
Goodbye Brooklyn is my semi-autobiographical story of lovers who leave disapproving-in-laws and social opposition, only to begin their marital life in a windowless stone hut surrounded by a thicket of trees and the cries of unseen creatures.. Annie and Wally huddle on a broken bed beneath a bloodied machete. A solitary light bulb and a rooftop tank of water their only comfort. Not a toilet in sight.
Far from their roots they are rootless. At times illogically terrified. At other times deliciously happy and, despite being mired in danger, foolishly sure of their safety. Most of all, Goodbye Brooklyn is a light-hearted query into the endurance of love midst problems galore.
Sounds pretty funny, doesn't it? Much of it is. But as we know the underbelly of humor is rife with the complexities of life. The difficult parents, disgruntled in-laws, social sanctions, strangers with hidden agendas, and the everyday frictions of lovers. Goodbye Brooklyn is my semi-autobiographical story of honeymooners adrift in an unfamiliar spot. Far from their roots, they are rootless. At times illogically terrified; at other times illogically sure of their safety. Annie, like Alice in Wonderland has followed her rabbit, her Wally, into a world of surprise, unpredictability, happiness and dread.
Goodbye Brooklyn is a humorous story of a honeymoon between a skeptical middle-class white gal named Annie from Brooklyn and a credulous upper-class black guy named Wally from Manhattan. A marriage between a dreamer who wants to build a boat to sail around the world and a realist unsure of his skills. Fortunately for her hubby, along comes a therapist who secures a carpentry job with a loin-clothed, foul mouthed ex-patient of his on a remote Caribbean island. The carpenter appears to have arranged for the local coffin maker to murder his wife. This same coffin maker stalks our young heroine from day one of her arrival.
Goodbye Brooklyn is my semi-autobiographical story of lovers who leave disapproving-in-laws and social opposition, only to begin their marital life in a windowless stone hut surrounded by a thicket of trees and the cries of unseen creatures.. Annie and Wally huddle on a broken bed beneath a bloodied machete. A solitary light bulb and a rooftop tank of water their only comfort. Not a toilet in sight.
Far from their roots they are rootless. At times illogically terrified. At other times deliciously happy and, despite being mired in danger, foolishly sure of their safety. Most of all, Goodbye Brooklyn is a light-hearted query into the endurance of love midst problems galore.
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