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While Tito drove along the road lined with coconut trees, their branches blew like hair tossing in the wind, and they seemed to welcome him as old friends might. He’d heard of men in New York who’d lost everything in one afternoon, hurling themselves from the tops of buildings, dropping like dolls. Amongst his American investments, he’d lost Ada’s own life savings, all the money she had inherited from her father.Īmanda Smyth, author of Black Rock and A Kind of Eden, is working on her third novel. How could he? Who told him to put money in a bank in Tennessee? He’d been reckless, got ahead of himself.
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While the Hoover administration and the Federal Reserve were doing nothing to slow the accelerating trend of bank failures all over America, he was warned that he would lose even more in Tennessee.
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He had more than $50,000 saved in a high-interest account in the United States of America Bank, which, according to the press, was preparing to announce its closure. Last month, Tito had lost the family fortune in the New York stock market. And while the land rushed by – the cane fields and the rice fields and the burnt hills with their black scars and the lilac sky above them, he thought about his life and how he was going to end it. Mile upon mile he drove, and he passed the turning to Arima, made his way along the empty road. He drove out of town towards the east coast. He told them he had business in Arima and wouldn’t be back until evening. On Sunday morning, Tito Fernandez kissed his wife and daughter goodbye. This is an extract from her third novel, a work in progress. Her published work includes the novels Black Rock and A Kind of Eden. Sunday 12 August 2018 Irish-Trinidadian writer Amanda SmythĪMANDA SMYTH is an Irish-Trinidad writer.