From Generation to Generation: A Story of a Family - Paperback

by Elorna Evelyn Quaye (Author)

From Generation to Generation: A Story of a Family

What happens when a family's love, loyalty, memories, and legacy collide with money, property, and inheritance?

The Jubilee family is a large Caribbean family whose story spans generations. Raised together on a family compound, the children grow up, build families of their own, and eventually move away-some remaining on the islands and others moving overseas.

But the family compound and its generational land remain at the heart of the family.

When old houses are replaced with new ones, family relationships begin to change. Questions about ownership, inheritance, property rights, money, and fairness bring long-standing disagreements to the surface. Siblings, nieces, nephews, and other relatives find themselves divided over what should happen to the family land and the homes built upon it.

Along the way, the story explores family bonds, betrayal, forgiveness, jealousy, communication, cultural traditions, migration, childhood memories, and the complicated relationships that can exist between relatives.

From Generation to Generation: A Story of a Family is a thought-provoking family story that invites readers to consider an important question: when family members disagree, what matters more-the land and inheritance, or the family itself?

A story of family, conflict, culture, memories, and the ties that connect generations.