A Swarthy Boy Sheri Young DuMars looks for God in

DuMars looks for God in the stories of the Bible’s women

and crackling with energy

straight to the head

and yet how she laughed when climbing onto the roof in men’s clothing to throw bricks

hypnotic style

A Swarthy Boy Sheri Young DuMars looks for God inEdgar Mittelholzers autobiography, first published in 1963, which covers the first eighteen years of his life, was his first return in writing to about his native Guyana, of memory and imagination, for a good many years. Born into a household that regarded itself as European, Mittelholzer writes with vivid feeling about what it was like to be a boy whose swarthiness was anathema to his bigoted father. In the process, Mittelholzer gives an account of