The Ventriloquist's Tale

A century of one Wapishana family plays out across the Rupununi, the vast grass plain of southern Guyana between the Kanuku Mountains and the Brazilian border. Ranches and a Jesuit mission sit among the savannah settlements around Lethem, while a modern thread carries a son of the family north to the coastal capital, Georgetown, some four hundred kilometres away.

Chofoye McKinnon

The Rupununi savannah

Prologue

The grass plain of southern Guyana is the ground the whole book stands on. Across a hundred years the family's story keeps returning to this expanse of savannah, its cattle trails, its scattered settlements and its seasons of flood and burning drought.

Prologue and throughout

explicit The novel names the Rupununi repeatedly as the family's country; this point marks the open savannah plain of the region's south.

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