How does the setting of Toronto’s city center and its surrounding suburbs illustrate the growing class factions after the Riots? How does the depiction of the communities living within the city center challenge perceptions of financial and cultural poverty?

Discuss the matrilineal bond between Gros-Jeanne (Mami), Mi-Jeanne, and Ti-Jeanne. What is the significance of highlighting this connection between three generations of Caribbean women in the novel?

Ti-Jeanne often finds herself torn between different figures in her life who have ulterior designs for her. Name three directions in which she is torn. Which of these paths does she follow at the novel’s end? Why?