Crucian Fusion: essays, interviews, stories

by Apple Gidley

Overview

Crucian Fusion is a collection of fact and fiction that speaks to the rich history as well as present day St Croix, the largest US Virgin Island.

It is a book to be dipped into - over coffee or maybe a rum, at the beach, as the sun rises or sets. Provoked by thoughts, good and bad, the essays tell of nearly nine years on island. Conversations people who have contributed to the fabric of Crucian society whether through the arts and culture, music, farming or education. And the short stories, well, they are pure fiction although a couple are based on historical events and the Census of 1846.

Crucian Fusion is for islanders, residents and visitors interested in this spectacular part of America's Caribbean.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780578958354
Publisher:	Apple Gidley
Publication date:	10/30/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	342
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

A nomadic life, chronicled in Expat Life Slice by Slice, has seen Anglo-Australian Apple Gidley live and work in twelve countries—the experiences of which influence her writing: Fireburn and Transfer, are historical novels set in the Danish West Indies (OC Publishing). Crucian Fusion, a love story to St Croix, the island she called home for ten years. Now published by Vine Leaves Press, Have You Eaten Rice Today? (2022) covers the communist uprising in 1950s Malaya; Finding Serenissima, (March 2025) a contemporary novel based in Venice, delves into a woman's emergence from the strains of her husband's Alzheimer's and his subsequent death; Annie's Day, which explores an Australian army nurse's perspective during WWII and beyond will be published in November 2025. She is currently researching her next historical novel. Gidley's roles have included editor for a global charity magazine, honorary consul, and dive bum, among others. After ten years in the Caribbean, Gidley relocated to Cambridgeshire, England in 2023, which has arguably been her most challenging relocation, and she misses the tropics.

Table of Contents

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Foreword

Essays

February 14th, 2013Paradise Opens Early  

June 3rd, 2013Sleepy Sundays  

June 10th, 2013Thoughts Across Oceans

September 26th, 2013The Sounds of Music  

December 13th, 2013Out on the Boardwalk      

April 2nd 2014Seaplane Time   

April 7th, 2014A Necessary Organ 

April 14th, 2014A Taste of St Croix

July 28th, 2014A Nest Egg

October 1st, 2014Chikungunya 

August 28th, 2015Erika Came for the Night 

December 5th, 2015It's That Time of Year

March 13th, 2016The Great American Song Book 

March 21st, 2016The Oddest Parade Down Island

January 3rd, 2017Beauty and the Beast 

January 10th, 2017Rise Up This Morning 

January 17th, 2017Chaney and Other Collections 

March 31st, 2017American for 100 Years 

September 19th, 2017Maria Heads for America's Caribbean

November 13th, 2017Moths, Maggots and Mold

February 14th, 2018It Was a Honey of a Day! 

April 29th, 2018Why Here? 

June 10th, 2018Cherry Picking     

July 3rd, 2018The Conch Calls

July 18th, 2018Bed Posts

January 5th, 2019Melancholy Confusion

April 15th, 2019Directionally Challenged

November 30th, 2019Pride, It's a Tricky Thing

December 30th, 2019Getting Shot!

March 25th, 2020Interregnum

June 12th, 2020The Masked Lady

August 2nd, 2020Power to the People

February 8th, 2021How Does My Garden Grow?

March 27th, 2021Perfume and Politics

September 10th, 2021Hope

Tales

Violet  

The Semptress House 

Across the Sea 

Rum Runners 

László

Conversations

Hans LawaetzA Renaissance Cowboy  

Stanley JacobsThe Beat Must Go On   

Lucien DownesThe Art of a Man  

Nina YorkThe Danish Connection 

Doc PetersenA Calypsonian Vet

Toni LanceTuppence a Bag

Bob Apfel Raising Cane

Resa O'ReillyFuture Promises

Glossary

Acknowledgements

About the Author