In the tradition of Jamaica Kincaid and Austin Clarke, writing about their Caribbean homelands, award-winning author Lorna Goodison has brought to life her native Jamaica in this dazzling fiction debut.

Following her award-winning family memoir, From Harvey River, this Canadian debut of Lorna Goodison's fiction will introduce readers to one of world literature's brightest lights. With warm humour and an unsentimental and perceptive eye for the foibles of human relationships, Goodison vividly evokes the lives of a varied community of people as they face challenges both intensely private and universally recognizable.

In sensuous language textured with the cadences of Creole speech, these stories immerse us in a memorable world where pride, poverty, love, and unexpected turns of fortune leave their marks but cannot extinguish the human spirit. Bringing together in a single edition new stories as well as stories never before published in Canada, I Come Through confirms Lorna Goodison's reputation as one of our finest writers.