Fiction. African American Studies. For nearly thirty years Cynthia Wilson has been representing her country and the cultural arts on national, regional and international boards, committees and fora in dance, theater and tourism. Writing poetry and stories has been a consistent but mostly private part of Wilson's life and professional career and SAME SEA...ANOTHER WAVE is her first book. "SAME SEA...ANOTHER WAVE is a collection of `I got something to tell' stories from Barbados. As a child in St. Martin, the precocious child who leads us through this conversation of memories, I too was `passed over the coffin'-once a custom of import in the Caribbean.It is exactly this kind of intimacy that is so attractive about Cynthia Wilson's storytelling, sometimes disarmingly soft, at other times unassumingly shocking"--Rhoda Arrindell, University of St. Martin.