Pink Icing
Released: Sept, 2006
Insomniac Press
9781773055527
Telling stories of ordinary lives with extraordinary skill, Pamela Mordecai draws delicately detailed portraits of life in Jamaica and other islands, with occasional trips to Canada. Her characters speak with the cadences of the Caribbean, and cope with the universal experiences of birth and death, joy and betrayal.
In “Hartstone High”, a group of girls learn the high price of education; in “Alvin’s Ilk”, a self-centred teenaged boy comes to see his elderly neighbour in a whole new way; and in “Shining Waters”, a young priest’s plans for his new parish go horribly awry. Mordecai turns a sharp ear to the nuances of everyday speech, exposing the currents beneath the calm exterior and producing complex tales that will challenge and entertain her readers.
Reviews for Pink Icing
Ali, Jonathan. “Short and Bittersweet.” Caribbean Review of Books, no. 11, 2007, pp. 20–31. (Archived via Wayback Machine: [https://web.archive.org/web/20151016195017/http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/crb-archive/11-february-2007/])
Bartley, Jim. “In the Pink.” The Globe and Mail, 6 Jan. 2007, p. D10.
Cannavan, Sarah. “Top Three in Books: O’Neill, Mordecai, and Julavits.” Metro, 15 Jan. 2007. Reprinted in Metro, 25 Sept. 2013.
Hanna, Mary. “An Intense, Complex Reading Experience.” The Gleaner, 11 Feb. 2007.
Kienlen, Alexis. “Short Stories Collected.” Canadian Literature, 8 Dec. 2011. Web. Accessed 11 Sept. 2013.
McMillan, Eric. “Fresh Young Voice from a Veteran Writer.” Editor Eric: The Greatest Literature of All Time, Sept. 2007. Web. Accessed 25 Sept. 2013.
Nurse, Donna Bailey. “Pamela Mordecai: She Sweets One Just Fine.” The Toronto Star, 22 Apr. 2007, thestar.com.. Accessed 9 Sept. 2013.
O’Callaghan, Evelyn. “‘What Are Little Girls Made Of?’: Pamela Mordecai’s Pink Icing and Other Stories.” Callaloo, vol. 30, no. 3, Summer 2007, pp. 943–947. Project MUSE
“Pink Icing by Pamela Mordecai.” Carbon Based Lifeform Blues, 30 Apr. 2009. Web. Accessed 25 Sept. 2013.
Reckord, Michael. “Review of Pink Icing.” The Literary Review, vol. 50, no. 3, 2007, pp. 175–78.