You have to harden you heart in times like this - Kim Robinson-Walcott

Sometimes You Have to Harden Your Heart is an immersion into the vibrant, raw, and dynamic heart of Kingston’s urban sprawl. This collection of Jamaican short stories move from among those who live in and on the edge of gullies – the arteries of the city – to the sprawling mansions with their manicured lawns on its outskirts. These often visceral stories are unflinching as they expose the taut, turbulent dynamics pulsing beneath the surface of the city’s complex human tapestry.  Masterfully crafted, the stories in this thematically eclectic collection are a potent literary journey awash in the primal energy coursing through Kingston – the poignant and evocative, the depraved and transcendent and always, the flawed.