The Author
Trinidadian-born Derry Sandy is a corporate lawyer barred in New York and living in Washington DC. He is new to creative writing, but it is clear this is what he was meant to do. Greyborn Rising is his first novel.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
For Annmarie Bruno-Sandy who taught us the love of the written word.
For Nnenne C. Okorafor without whose support this book would not have been completed.
For Lisa C. Cyrus (keep reading it will come to you).
For Amanda Dabydeen, Alicia Omans and Theodora Joseph the first readers.
And for the ancestors, yours and mine, who lived the stories which we re-tell.