Leaving Pico

Résumé du livre

In the insular Portuguese fishing community of the Cape, Josie's life has been shaped by annual influx of summer tourists (who are largely oblivious of the locals) and his great aunt Theophila's fervent if idiosyncratic Catholicism (she has visions and keeps a private shrine to the saints). The community is also sharply divided between the Picos like himself (whose ancestors hailed from the Azores) and the Lisbons (whose forebears came directly from the old country). The counterweight to these forces has been the boy's relationship with his grandfather John Joseph, a drunk, clam-poaching old man who is nevertheless a sly and tricksterish master storyteller.