From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto's condo culture, from Havana's haunted streets to Trinidad's calamitous environs, the stories in Suite as Sugar are permeated with the violence of colonial histories, personal and intimate. The characters in this collection reclaim connection to ancestral earth in the absence of elders, reflecting legacies of abandonment and consequential neo-colonialism. The veil between the living and the dead is obscured, chaos becomes panacea, and characters take drastic matters into their own hands.