In Trinidad, in the wake of 1970's Black Power rebellion, we follow Sonnyboy, Singer King Kala, and their town's folk through experiments in music, politics, religion, and love—and in their day-to-day adventures. Humorous and serious, sad and uplifting, Is Just a Movie , is a radiant novel about small moments of magic in ordinary life. Earl Lovelace 's books include While Gods Are Falling , winner of the BP Independence Award; the Caribbean classic The Dragon Can't Dance ; and Salt , which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. For Is Just a Movie , he has won the Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature by the Regional Council of Guadeloupe and the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.