If you're not Jamaican, what you have here is a special opportunity to see who we actually are: we're not at all like you, but absolutely the same. Mostly, Arthurs has written a love letter to Jamaicans, and it feels so good. Yes, iyah. Bless up.

Among the handworkers in the shoe factories, the least skilled are those found in the sole-leather department, if there is one. Their work, described in Chapter III, requires little judgment and less dexterity […]

He is our resident computer expert.

Geoffrey's face was a study in amazement [or in bewilderment, irritation, distress etc.]