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in 2014 commented on the fact that "So few
Caribbean writers actually live and write in the region" – unlike Hillhouse: "There's such an authenticity to her story.... I immediately knew the people, the characters she wrote about." Hillhouse herself has said: "hile I believe and hope my stories have
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