The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud review – tales of a Trinidadian gangster

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The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud review – tales of a Trinidadian gangster

The troubling allure of a real-life gangster is vividly captured in tales from the women who fell for himBoysie Singh was a Trinidadian bogeyman. “Behave yourself,” mothers would warn their naughty children, “or Boysie goyn get allyuh.” A notorious gangster, he terrorised Trinidadian society for decades until his death by execution in 1957. Ingrid Persaud’s new novel, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh, follows in the wake of her debut, Love Af…