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Jean Rhys’s The Day They Burned the Books is a powerful short story about colonial identity, race, cultural domination, childhood, memory, and the complex emotional significance of books. Set in the Caribbean during the colonial period, the story is narrated retrospectively by a girl who remembers her friendship with Eddie Sawyer, the mixed-race son of an English father and a coloured Caribbean mother. At the surface level, the story centres on a dramatic incident after the death of Eddie’s fath...