My first reaction towards “Even in Paradise” by Elizabeth Nunez is astonished. I was intrigued by the setting of the book and how the author Elizabeth Nunez uses Trinidadian culture. What i enjoyed about the book is that in and out of each chapter you can observe that the characters get wiser as they are reiterated throughout each chapter. In addition, the book has a very meaningful tone on young readers just like us as they introduce us to adolescents in the book and give them adult mindsets. For example, in the beginning of the book the author states “At sixteen I considered myself already a man,” (Nunez 11). From this example it was emphasizing the adult like minds. Furthermore, the book surprised me in the sense that Émile a sixteen year
