INGRID PERSAUD

For comfort reading, I go to T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” and it always inspires.I read One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as a young teenager and after that was hooked on the author. I have not actually reread the book for decades so not sure what it would mean to me now.How do I show words love?  If I love a word and it’s a new relationship, I try to play it cool—maybe smile when I see it or give a secret wink. And when I type that word my fingers are gentle on the keyboard. Yes, I may be an old-fashioned romantic.  • Ingrid Persaud was born in Trinidad and is the author of the novel If I Never Went Home (Blue China Press, 2013). She lives in Barbados and London.