Storm of Fortune A Novel
"With the same central characters who appeared in The Meeting Point (1972) Mr. Clarke returns to Toronto with a second, deceptively sprightly -- at times -- merry-go-round of the ups and downs and ins and outs of that cold Canadian city's appealing ""Wessindian"" population -- domestics sassing their white bosses in traditional accepted fashion (throwing parties, ""borrowing"" liquor and occasionally straying husbands) -- their own out-of-work spouses forever searching for that job that is something better than janitor -- and apparently, meanwhile, having the time of their lives. Of course, every silver lining has its cloud -- the difficulties of being an emigrant, disagreeable landladies and ugly cops (though a far cry from their U.S. cousins), the deep-down hatred underlying even the best interracial marriages -- implicit but never discussed (or solved, pseudo-philosophical-wise) by this apparently superficial but actually extremely sophisticated author, who trusts his reader to see the undercoating of his unfailingly energized dialogue. It keeps the novel articulate and alive."--Kirkus