Life in the Left Lane is a short and lively nonfiction book about what it's really like for expatriates to live in a tropical island paradise. Written by a journalist who has lived in the islands for more than thirty-five years, it is an honest, affectionate and humorous report on all aspects of the adventure, from adjusting to island time to making a living, building a dream house and coping with hurricanes. Her vivid descriptions of carnival, the Creole language, gardening and island food, and her insightful observations about minority status, politics, religion and crime, are enlightening reading for anyone curious about life in the Caribbean. The author writes about the islands in general, but specifically her island of St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands, where driving in the left lane in cars designed to drive on the right is but one of the idiosyncrasies of quirky island style.

Life in the Left Lane

Biographies & Memoirs

Thomas, Emy

Community & Culture

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Home Is Where the Boat Is is and entertaining and informative report on the lifestyle of adventures who cruise the oceans in small sailboats. Written for sailors and laymen alike and for anyone who has ever dreamed of sailing off into the sunset, it is a lively and honest account of the pros and cons of cruising. Chapters include getting food and water, doing laundry, making a living, meeting the natives, surviving storms and sickness. The book is also a love story about the author, a journalist, and the typical "yachtie" with whom she spent 13 years sailing halfway around the world, visiting scores of tropical paradise.

Home is Where the Boat Is

A privileged New England girl takes unlikely paths, like sailing half-way around the world in a home-made sailboat with a penniless lover, then building a dream house on a tropical island. A former journalist, the author tells her story in an easy-going conversational style.

A Most Unlikely Story: A Short Memoir of a Long Life

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Life in the Left Lane

Home is Where the Boat Is

A Most Unlikely Story: A Short Memoir of a Long Life