Reviewed by Robert Epstein in The Independent, the book was called "a polymorphous delight that always retains at its core the notion of identity: how it is constructed, how it is thrust upon us, how we can change it.

"[1] In the words of Courttia Newland in Wasafiri magazine, the collection "revisits the author’s chosen territories of ‘displacement, home/homelessness, race and identity’, as defined by Renée Schatteman, editor of Conversations with Caryl Phillips (2009).

It is a volume heaving with insights, musings and ideology, some thirty-eight essays in all, each dissecting the notion of tribal belonging and its polar opposite, exclusion.

Phillips had it tough growing up in Leeds in the 1960s and 1970s and undeniably life was hard for the first wave of immigrants to the UK, yet I can't help but feel that he is sometimes too harsh on Britain.

"[3] Summarizing the collection, Marita Golden writes in the Washington Independent Review of Books: "Phillips offers the reader a fresh vision of the 'issues' of the lost-and-found nature of our identities (no matter who we are), displacement, migration and connectedness in a world that has yoked us together even and ever more closely.