Adapted into the highly successful Broadway musical Once on This Island (nominated for eight Tony Awards), Rosa Guy's tropical retelling of Hans Christian Anderson's fable "The Little Mermaid" is the
"What happens to a dream deferred?" asked Langston Hughes. Bird at My Window answers that question with a psychological study of a black man whose aspirations are subverted by his environment. Wade Wi
Phyllisia eventually recognizes that her own selfish pride rather than her mother's death and her father's tyrannical behavior created the gulf between her and her best friend.
