What Start Bad a Mornin’ (Central Avenue Publishing), the debut adult novel by CaribbeanReads Publishing founder Carol Mitchell, spans locations in Virginia, Washington, DC, Trinidad, and Jamaica, contending with a forty-year-old diaspora Caribbean woman’s quest to heal from the suppressed trauma ingrained in her life. The journeys undertaken by Mitchell’s protagonist, Amaya, are as mental as they are corporeal. Neurodiversity, dementia, and acute cognitive dissonance are all addressed in the novel’s plot, which pinpoints the risks experienced by family members and close-knit communities when reconciliation and justice are not pursued.