Kingston's Story

Iloro House has eight rooms, a box room and one man with no room at all. Kingston sleeps a night or two in everybody's, sweeps the corridor at dawn, preaches to the waves on the beach beyond the bush and sings his own songs on the veranda when the power goes. Nobody on June 12 Street knows his real name or where he comes from, and everybody agrees he is all right. This is his story in three chapters: the house that learned to live with him, the power-cut night he first called AJ his brother, and the night the rains came.