Michael Drinkard’s novel
Green Bananas contains one Shakespeare reference: “Now, while
Sylvan stirs with a wooden spoon, Alabama chants: ‘Double, double, toil and
trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble. Shakespeare. Now comes the good part. Cool
it with baboon’s blood, then the charm is firm and good’” (pages 51-52). This
comes because Sylvan is boiling a bobcat skull in a pot, and Alabama wants to
disguise it as soup because two girls are coming over.
Green Bananas
was published in 1989 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. The copy I read was a first
edition.
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