"Vicious, Heart Wrenching, Madness! Living With Idiotism is a Jamaican Masterpiece. It's "Precious" meets Swofiyah." Tanya R. Chambers.
Swofiyah dreamt of becoming a machete swinging killer, like her aunty, when she grows up. To start sharpening her skills, she began practicing on the chickens her mother cooked for Sunday dinner. But her dream was cut short when she promised her beloved cousin, before his death, that she would give up the badness business and focused on school.
Her life became more complicated when the new man, Janet...her mother...brought home, started doing things he was not supposed to, leaving Janet believing her young innocent daughter was just another worthless trash who wouldn't mount to anything, and would someday "end up in prison rubbing crotch".
Was Janet correct? Or was she putting a curse on her daughter?