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By Night The Mountain Burns recounts the narrators childhood on a remote island off the West African coast- living with his mysterious grandfather- several mothers and no fathers. We learn of a dark chapter in the islands history: a bush fire destroys the crops- then hundreds perish in a cholera outbreak. Superstition dominates: now the islanders must sacrifice their possessions to the enraged ocean god. What of their lives will they manage to save? Whitmanesque in its lyrical evocation of the island- Avila Laurels writing builds quietly- through the oral rhythms of traditional storytelling- into gripping drama worthy of an Achebe or a Garcia Marquez....