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Book Six
By the sixth book, Walcott has made his return to St. Lucia and it remains for him to gather the strands of his converging plots. After depicting the wreck of the Comet in which Hector is killed, Walcott is guided to the site by a talkative taxi driver. Next, Ma Kilman follows a trail of ants into the mountains and retrieves the homeopathic African herb that finally cures Philoctete's open wound. As Philoctete is cleansed, Walcott catalogs the terms of his healing. His flesh and spirit are restored as his racial shame is washed away and he reclaims his lost...

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