Blessed Is the Fruit

Blessed Is the Fruit is a novel by Robert Antoni. Published in 1997 by Henry Holt, it explores the fluid boundaries of race in the Caribbean.

Reception

Betsy Willeford, writing in the The Miami Herald, found that while the books was "both earthy and litary", the "use of symbol and portent blocks out the rader's view" of the characters. James Polk, of The Philadelphia Inquirer, on the other hand, found that "or all its difficulty, for all its surface impenetrability" the book told "a simple story, and told "it very well indeed".