Robert Antoni took the literary world by storm with his first novel, Divina Trace, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and is widely recognized as a landmark in Caribbean literature. His second novel, Blessed Is the Fruit, received extraordinary literary praise and was hailed by Robert Olen Butler as an enduring work of art.\" My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales is a seductive collection of folktales retold by an exotic grandmother to her innocent young grandson. Set amid the lush landscape of the island of Corpus Christi during World War II, these erotic tales were originally meant to keep the U. S. servicemen who were stationed on the island out of the brothels - and out of trouble. Now, in her ninety-seventh year, the widow tells these stories as a tapestry of interlocking and exaggerated memories - all the more colorful for the retelling. \"May infuse even the most jaded adult readers with a strangely rejuvenating delight.\" - The Seattle Times \"Sly as it is funny andrevealing as it is bold.\" - The Miami Herald \"As surprising and luminous as a hidden tropical waterfall\" - The Washington Post \""Robert Antoni’s first novel, Divina Trace, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and is recognized as a landmark in Caribbean literature. He is the author of another novel, Blessed is the Fruit, which Robert Olen Butler hailed as \"an enduring work of art\" and Stephen Dixon called \"dreamily stimulating and intellectually and emotionally activating, besides being a wonderful story that . . . comes at you like a roar of mythological force.\" Antoni holds a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University and a doctorate from the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa. The recipient of The Paris Review’s Aga Kahn Prize for 1999, he divides his time between Miami, the Caribbean, and Barcelona. | My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales, Paperback | Indigo Chapters