Conflicts do exist between the body, will, and spirits. Women play the role as primary holders of spiritual powers above men. It has been scientifically proven that human genetic history can only be traced for eons through the female of our species. So the Obeah witchdocter Barbey must find a way to locate Coranna using only her twenty three year old navel string.When ever an agressive go-getter lover like Morganna attempts to return to a sweet, lil homey, in Coranna, there is bound to be conflicts on both sides. After all, in time two people can become strangers because of new experiences that bring on change and growth.
So stranger meets stranger. We all know about forgivness, anger, revelations, hurt and pain. Who gives? What about abandonment, anguish, mental abuse, loneliness, physical abuse, and just giving it all up to start all over again. But with soulmates, can love be denied. I pity Coranna. Then to top it off, she ends up with a sweet devoted teen lover in Sasha. She embodies the enduring lover.
When a man the likes of Knuckles with millions from the cocaine trade decides to work on your woman, you have problems. Yet sometimes it can be convenient, that is if the female couple wants to have a child along with lots of money. But which lover can stomach knowing that the money you spend belongs to a man. For the sake of love go out and get your own.
In 'HIGH' Coranna does try to get her own. Only, as in Bruce Porter's 'BLOW' she messes it up. The author, himself, a former cocaine addict gets down to the highs of the cocaine highs. So Coranna takes you on a ride.
The Bahamas of the eighties, with curruption among the highest of the government officials allows a most notorious Columbian cocaine kingpin a freehand in trafficking drugs to Florida. The officials facilitate all aspects of protection, even to work agaisnt the government of the United States. A butch lesbian Tomboy is the Columbian's, Bahamian-point-person. She is more ruthless than a man.
The United States Govenment and the DEA make it their business to stop the trafficking, but they always hindered by the Bahamian government. Then steps in NBC, and its investigative reporter Ross, who did indeed expose the great extent the Bahamians protected Columbian cocaine shipments.
The mystical side of this novel is overwhelming as Barbey must make contact with Coranna before his death, which is fast approaching. He must upload all of the spirits of the ancient worlds into her. Already Barbey was rescued from death by a spiritual seed Chiesne. In Chiesne, readers get a glimpse of pre-Christopher Colombus Bahamas and get a chance to live in harmony and nature with the Lucayans.
This is a great threatise from the Bahamas, and probably one of the most interesting pieces of fiction to come out of the Caribbean. 'High' details occult Obeah rituals and the trappings of the world pressured by modern United States of America.
The book shows that lesbian love can be enduring, and that spiritual forces do exist beyond.
