Nobody Wants to Get Wet

In Guyana a man will pay three hundred dollars for a bag of mango he does not want rather than say two words to a vendor. He is not weak. He has calculated, correctly, that the cost of speaking is higher than the cost of paying — and he has run that calculation so many times that he no longer notices running it.This is a book about fear — the inherited, rational fear of two peoples who each believ...