Just finished skim-reading V.S. Naipaul's Miguel Street. I found it quite by accident on the shelves in the library - it's not cataloged separately from the other two selections that it is bound with, which are The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira.
The book flap calls Miguel Street "delightfully comic" in contrast to his later, dark, violent novels. Perhaps so: but I just found the stories dated and a bit elitist. And not offering any insight really into the geography of the Caribbean. I have made a copy of part of his non-fiction novella (?) The Return of Eva Peron because it describes Montevideo, but I am not sure if the Montevideo of 1972 is really relevant for teaching purposes in World Regional Geography.